Thanks, I didn't realise that it was meant to be this way. To me, it sounded a bit like MSVC was the only option, and you had to install if for cross compiling.

Thanks, I didn't realise that it was meant to be this way. To me, it sounded a bit like MSVC was the only option, and you had to install if for cross compiling. Since this is actually harder to do (from your own post), I worry a bit that a beginner might try to do it right away, to the risk of failing at it.