[jrapdx3]

Appreciate your reply! I am interested in trying it out, I'm familiar with MS tools so I don't think I'd have too much trouble following the procedures you've described. Glad to hear Hyper-V is an option since I've used it quite often, usually straightforward enough installing an OS.

Anyway your project sounds sufficiently different from established OSs to make me curious to see it running. However I think you're right, long-term success depends on gaining developer support to grow a large useful software catalog. Having that happen relies on having good tools available and to the extent possible clear interfaces to program against.

BTW one of the problems programming for Windows is the ungodly number of ABIs propagated by MS. AIUI MSVC is considered a legacy technology. MS encourages using UCRT, sort of modernized MSVC, and not fully compatible. Many more examples are out there.

Anyway my point is the virtue of keeping it simple, at least making it no more complicated than necessary.

Finally I'm curious about your reasons for developing on Windows. Doesn't seem the obvious or intuitive choice, but you've done well to make it work. Should be fun to try it out.