error[E0793]: reference to packed field is unaligned -during anchor download

[Sam-Berman1]

cargo install --git https://github.com/coral-xyz/anchor avm --locked --force

Sometimes may return:

.cargo\registry\src\index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f\ntapi-0.3.7\src\ntexapi.rs:2783:52
     |
2783 |         *tick_count.QuadPart_mut() = read_volatile(&(*USER_SHARED_DATA).u.TickCountQuad);
     |                                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
     |
     = note: packed structs are only aligned by one byte, and many modern architectures penalize unaligned field accesses
     = note: creating a misaligned reference is undefined behavior (even if that reference is never dereferenced)
     = help: copy the field contents to a local variable, or replace the reference with a raw pointer and use `read_unaligned`/`write_unaligned` (loads and stores via `*p` must be properly aligned even when using raw pointers)

Changing the .cargo/git/checkouts/anchor/xxxxxxx/avm/Cargo.toml
To include:

tokio = { version = "1.28.0", features = ["full"] }

&

.cargo/git/anchor/xxxxxx/cli/Cargo.toml

from "~1.14.0" to 1.28.0

Fixed this issue.
Thankful for https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76173195/my-rust-project-is-broken-all-of-the-sudden for hinting

[acheroncrypto]

cargo install --git https://github.com/coral-xyz/anchor avm --force

should pull the latest tokio version(without --locked argument).

avm doesn't have a direct dependency to tokio but it's getting tokio 1.14.1 because solana-client specifies tokio ~1.14.1. Looks like they've just bumped tokio to 1.29.1 and applied ntapi patch but that is not yet released.

[acheroncrypto]

This problem only seems to happen on Windows, you'll have much better experience if you use WSL for developing on Solana if you are on Windows.

[acheroncrypto]

This should be fixed in 0.29.0

anchor/Cargo.lock

Lines 5009 to 5010 in fc3905a

	name = "tokio"
	version = "1.32.0"