Here is my quick-and-dirty cookbook: https://eggplant.pro/blog/writing-win32-applications-with-mingw-and-wine/ https://eggplant.pro/blog/writing-win32-applicat

Here is my quick-and-dirty cookbook: https://eggplant.pro/blog/writing-win32-applications-with-mingw-and-wine/ https://eggplant.pro/blog/writing-win32-applications-with-mi... If you need clarifications, just post a comment there. As for faster, VS2017 takes minutes to load on my machine (which is fairly beefy BTW). Even back when VS was fast, I could still work faster with the old userland progs like vim, grep, make, etc...