I recently needed to compile LibreOffice for Windows. And LibreOffice is relying on the MSVC compiler for that, so the straightforward way is to boot up a Windows.
If you have a nice howto for running Visual Studio under Wine / CrossOver / Proton, feel free to send me a link 😉
I’ve heard there used to be MinGW support. But it was dumped because it was ABI incompatible and maintaining two build setups was too much work.
Since I mostly work on Debian GNU/Linux since many years, I had quite some aversion clicking trough Windows setup wizards. I’m trying to keep this howto as short as possible. So here’s the solution I ended up with. Weiterlesen