This is so true. I have MinGW, WSL, MSYS, Clang, VSCode, and VS. I have to juggle between them. I also hate VS, it does way too much for you and you get a bunch of garbage IDE files. I imagine MS engineers in every meeting: "should we make this simple? Nah, let's just add several layers of unnecessary bullshit, yeah that sounds good."
This is so true. I have MinGW, WSL, MSYS, Clang, VSCode, and VS. I have to juggle between them. I also hate VS, it does way too much for you and you get a bunch of garbage IDE files. I imagine MS engineers in every meeting: "should we make this simple? Nah, let's just add several layers of unnecessary bullshit, yeah that sounds good."
see above, no VS involved
you can use Codelite, Ultimate++, or EclipseCDT
I have 3 envs on my Windows work laptop
1. PellesC => small C+win32 hobby
2. Msys2+mingw64 => main env for rust too
3. Clang-LLVM + Windows SDK + Cmake + jom (and Windows CRT from C3 install) => Works fine https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/releases/download/llvmo...
(I use 3 for D too)
4. I would like to add to your guide compiling with OpenWatcom V2 (https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2)
5. Cygwin they have latest GCC 15 in testing
6. Winlibs or equation.com mingw distros
In other words I'm very lost and in over my head.
see above.
would you like a guide for windows with method 3?
methods 2/4 should work out of the box
still I recommend you to give a go to latest D (dmd or ldc2) with method 3
(2 may work too)