Trouble installing the app through Cargo (Windows)

[sagittariidae]

I'm having some issues installing through Cargo. It keeps telling me "error: error calling dlltool 'dlltool.exe': program not found" when I try to run the "cargo install imessage-exporter" command.
I've had no better luck trying to use git bash since I'm not sure how to use the cd command. I've installed MSYS2, visual studio 2022, the C++ tools for VS, and I've tried installing some sort of toolchain in MSYS2. I tried just downloading one of the assets from the latest release, but when I run it, all it does is quickly open and close a blank window.
I know how to open Powershell and that's pretty much the full extent of my knowledge. I'm a complete noob haha. Thank you!

I have no idea how Rust works, and it's probably my lack of rudimentary knowledge that is giving me trouble, not anything to do with the program itself. I read the guide, but didn't understand most of the terms used (google searches left me with more questions than answers). I'm not really sure what a linker or a dlltool is. I am trying to export my iOS messages to free up space on my tablet/iPhone. If anyone could provide some guidance, it would be much appreciated.

[ReagentX]

If you don't want to install the Rust toolchain, you can just download the latest release for Windows from the releases page.

To run it, you don't double-click to open; you enter the path to the file in the command prompt. For example, if it is in C:\Users\<your_username>\Downloads you would either cd to your downloads directory, or invoke imessage-exporter like C:\Users\<your_username>\Downloads\imessage-exporter-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu.exe.

Running that will print the instructions, and you can just re-run it with your desired parameters. There is a YouTube guide available here for macOS; the steps to run the program are the same. Starting at 2:14 in the video, you'd just swap "Terminal" for "Powershell" or "Command Prompt." (You can ignore the part about adding ./ on Windows).

That said, before we get into any Rust toolchain debugging, how did you install Rust? What is the output of rustup show?