There's tooling that mostly avoids this. https://github.com/Jake-Shadle/xwin https://github.com/Jake-Shadle/xwin This is a utility that fixes a lot of the cros

There's tooling that mostly avoids this. https://github.com/Jake-Shadle/xwin https://github.com/Jake-Shadle/xwin This is a utility that fixes a lot of the cross-compiling issues for windows by giving you a portable, unfucked naming, and not-massive SDK. It's the same SDK you get when you install MSVC but it's only a few hundred megs and the names are consistent even with all of Windows' fucked up tooling. The only caveat is you need to provide your own compiler, in this case clang is often the best option.