Building in windows seems to require gcc?

[jjpepper]

I get this error in windows 10 building release build with cargo build --release.

   Compiling bincode v1.0.1
error: failed to run custom build command for `miniz-sys v0.1.11`

Caused by:
  process didn't exit successfully: `C:\Users\jesse\source\repos\github\xi-editor\xi-win\target\release\build\miniz-sys-201f847f1e1c804d\build-script-build` (exit code: 101)
  --- stdout
  TARGET = Some("x86_64-pc-windows-gnu")
  OPT_LEVEL = Some("3")
  HOST = Some("x86_64-pc-windows-gnu")
  CC_x86_64-pc-windows-gnu = None
  CC_x86_64_pc_windows_gnu = None
  HOST_CC = None
  CC = None
  CFLAGS_x86_64-pc-windows-gnu = None
  CFLAGS_x86_64_pc_windows_gnu = None
  HOST_CFLAGS = None
  CFLAGS = None
  DEBUG = Some("false")
  running: "gcc.exe" "-O3" "-ffunction-sections" "-fdata-sections" "-m64" "-DMINIZ_NO_STDIO" "-DMINIZ_NO_ARCHIVE_APIS" "-DMINIZ_NO_ARCHIVE_WRITING_APIS" "-DMINIZ_NO_TIME" "-DMINIZ_NO_ZLIB_COMPATIBLE_NAMES" "-o" "C:\\Users\\jesse\\source\\repos\\github\\xi-editor\\xi-win\\target\\release\\build\\miniz-sys-c81999ae0ba5eca0\\out\\miniz.o" "-c" "miniz.c"

  --- stderr
  thread 'main' panicked at '

  Internal error occurred: Failed to find tool. Is `gcc.exe` installed? (see https://github.com/alexcrichton/cc-rs#compile-time-requirements for help)

  ', C:\Users\jesse\.cargo\registry\src\github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823\cc-1.0.25\src\lib.rs:2260:5
  note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
error: build failed

My compiler version:

$ rustc --version
rustc 1.46.0 (04488afe3 2020-08-24)