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Interesting, how can I install just the cmake + msvc to do command line builds with windows? I'm also installing wsl2 + mingw because it is so much lighter for compilation than many, many gigabytes of vis studio.

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Download the build tools[0] and choose the appropriate options. I'd personally consider the following a good baseline: MSVC v143, CMake tools, Windows 11 SDK, Clang tools (if you don't want/need these you can shave off 3.5 GB). `zig cc` is another interesting alternative, it's just a single ~62 MB download.

[0] https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/#build-tools-fo...

Thanks, I'll give that a try!

`msbuild` is what I used back in the day. It seems to still exist, but I have no idea if this is still preferred solution. I just use WSL 2 these days, and live with the extra io latency.

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