Try using different linker

.cargo/config.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# Statically link the vcruntime
+# https://users.rust-lang.org/t/static-vcruntime-distribute-windows-msvc-binaries-without-needing-to-deploy-vcruntime-dll/57599
+[target.'cfg(all(windows, target_env = "msvc"))']
+rustflags = [
+	"-C",
+	"link-args=/DEFAULTLIB:ucrt.lib /DEFAULTLIB:libvcruntime.lib libcmt.lib",
+	"-C",
+	"link-args=/NODEFAULTLIB:libvcruntimed.lib /NODEFAULTLIB:vcruntime.lib /NODEFAULTLIB:vcruntimed.lib",
+	"-C",
+	"link-args=/NODEFAULTLIB:libcmtd.lib /NODEFAULTLIB:msvcrt.lib /NODEFAULTLIB:msvcrtd.lib",
+	"-C",
+	"link-args=/NODEFAULTLIB:libucrt.lib /NODEFAULTLIB:libucrtd.lib /NODEFAULTLIB:ucrtd.lib",
+]
+
+[target.aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu]
+linker = "aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc"

Cargo.toml

@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ reqwest = { version = "0.11", default-features = false }
 #
 # 1. Optimize for size
 # 2. Automatically strip symbols from the binary
+# 3. Enable link-time optimization
 #
 # Note that we could abort instead of panicking to cut down on size
 # even more, but because we use the filesystem & some other APIs we
@@ -54,3 +55,4 @@ reqwest = { version = "0.11", default-features = false }
 [profile.release]
 opt-level = "z"
 strip = true
+lto = true