+1 for msys2 and pacman. I was able to compile rather obscure libraries with next to no effort thanks to this. It's simple and straight forward. pacman -S

+1 for msys2 and pacman. I was able to compile rather obscure libraries with next to no effort thanks to this. It's simple and straight forward. pacman -S msys/apackage I had very little linux experience in the past and was amazed by the wealth of libraries, tools available. Especially anything related to the Gnome project. This stuff should be more popular among Windows developers.