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Rust Error: Could not find `avx` in `x86`

Posted on by Mahmoud Al-Qudsi
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Let’s start this article with an error message right off the bat:1

~> cargo install ripgrep --features 'avx-accel simd-accel'
    Updating registry `https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index`
  Installing ripgrep v0.9.0
…
error[E0432]: unresolved import `simd::x86::avx`
  --> /home/mqudsi/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/bytecount-0.3.2/src/lib.rs:49:16
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49 | use simd::x86::avx::{LowHigh128, u8x32};
   |                ^^^ Could not find `avx` in `x86`
error: aborting due to previous error
For more information about this error, try `rustc --explain E0432`.
error: Could not compile `bytecount`.

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  1. I’m primarily blogging this as I’ve run into – and worked around – this error several times before running into it again and not being able to remember how I resolved this problem the last time around. ↩