With MSYS2 installed on your Windows cloud instance, in a Bash shell for e.g. its UCRT64 environment, you could use pacman to get your dev setup in place: p

With MSYS2 installed on your Windows cloud instance, in a Bash shell for e.g. its UCRT64 environment, you could use pacman to get your dev setup in place: pacman -S base-devel git mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-toolchain mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-rust Other build tools like cmake, etc. are also readily available via pacman. I've found this approach helps make developing on Windows a lot more like I want, i.e. more like my experiences on Linux and macOS. Whether the "-toolchain" package in the install-list above (gcc and friends) is suitable for your needs, I'm not sure, though note that the "-rust" package brings in llvm automatically, so your bases are probably covered unless you have a strict requirement to use Microsoft's toolchain.