Which toolset is recommended for compiling externals under Windows? Or will any of the following work equally well?

1. Mingw
2. Msys
3. Cygwin
4. Visual Studio

For now, I'm not thinking of sharing any externals, since I'm just learning how to write them, plus I don't have access to a Mac, and the only Linux system I have is a Raspberry Pi. So I don't need to worry about cross-compiling.

Thanks.

@dfkettle I use MSYS2 with mingw64. However I've seen a comment that when I compile pd-next using this method the resulting binary is slower than vanilla. (but it was just 1 comment so idk). and I also use a VM so maybe it's that.

I think I've heard that if you decide to cross-compile it's easiest to do from linux. (I believe it's possible to cross-compile for osx from linux at least)

@seb-harmonik.ar For now, I don't need to cross-compile. And even if some day I do decide to share on Github or whatever, I don't really feel comfortable releasing something for all platforms if I'm unable to test it myself. But I guess most people are faced with the same problem, unless they have access to machines running all three OS's.

@dfkettle said:

@seb-harmonik.ar For now, I don't need to cross-compile. And even if some day I do decide to share on Github or whatever, I don't really feel comfortable releasing something for all platforms if I'm unable to test it myself. But I guess most people are faced with the same problem, unless they have access to machines running all three OS's.

I use osx and run VMs for windows and linux, which seems to work ok.. (except for this unconfirmed slowness on windows)