I've been asking (begging) Microsoft in every way I could find to get them to allow free use of their C compiler/linker for quite some time now. It seems that they've done that: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/updates-to-visual-studio-build-tools-license-for-c-and-cpp-open-source-projects/ Thoughts on future versions of Strawberry going out without MinGW bundled and letting Windows users install VS Build to get things going? -- ChaseThread Next