Windows is a hard environment for a C++ developer to live in – at least if you don’t use Visual Studio. What I find most annoying is setting up and maintaining several compiler toolchains in parallel. Compiler distributions – above all MinGW-w64 – are pretty much one-click installations these days, but easily switching the environment between different toolchains and moving those toolchains between computers ist still a hassle. Since I’m lazy, I started scripting. :-) Now I have a m...
