So far from my experience if you use C/C++ project you can: 1. Either use Mingw-W64, which is "closer" to WinAPI for compilation for Windows platforms, also mo

So far from my experience if you use C/C++ project you can: 1. Either use Mingw-W64, which is "closer" to WinAPI for compilation for Windows platforms, also more actively developed 2. Use the better build system. So far, I think Meson (+ Ninja to actually build) is very easy and fast even for the complex projects. Moreover it works great on both *nix and Windows systems - it can generate VS Projects, if you need (but I recommend Ninja still - it's so much faster), and you can use not the full Visual Studio installation, but just a Visual C++ Build Tools, with compilers only.