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by flohofwoe 780 days ago
The reason might be that cmake is one of the very few meta build systems that properly support Windows and MSVC (but also macOS and Xcode, compared to all that UNIX+GCC is easy-mode). One underappreciated feature of cmake is that it finds the installed Visual Studio toolchains and Windows SDKs without having to run from a "Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt".