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Cargo supply chain crashes on Windows with "could not find BaseDirectories in xdg" #106

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Environment

Info My environment
OS Windows 10
Rustc rustc 1.88.0 (6b00bc388 2025-06-23)
Cargo cargo 1.88.0 (873a06493 2025-05-10)

Steps to reproduce

  1. Run cargo install cargo-supply-chain
  2. Expected it to finish, instead got
error[E0433]: failed to resolve: could not find `BaseDirectories` in `xdg`                                                      
   --> C:\Users\_____\.cargo\registry\src\index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f\cargo-supply-chain-0.3.4\src\crates_cache.rs:116:14
    |
116 |         xdg::BaseDirectories::with_prefix("cargo-supply-chain")
    |              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ could not find `BaseDirectories` in `xdg`

For more information about this error, try `rustc --explain E0433`.                                                             
error: could not compile `cargo-supply-chain` (bin "cargo-supply-chain") due to 1 previous error                                

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