mstorsjo/msvc-wine

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A set of shell and Python scripts that download, unpack, and wrap Microsoft Visual C++ and the Windows SDK so they run under Wine on Linux. It enables transparent MSVC-based cross-compilation from Unix build tools, or use of the unpacked headers/libs with clang-cl without Wine.

Use cases

• cross-compile Windows binaries with MSVC from Linux
• set up MSVC and Windows SDK headers and libraries without a Windows machine
• use clang-cl with official MSVC headers and libraries
• build a CMake project targeting Windows using cl.exe under Wine
• create a reproducible Docker image with an MSVC toolchain

When to choose

• you need genuine MSVC toolchain behavior (cl.exe) while building on Linux
• you want MSVC/WinSDK headers and libraries for clang-cl cross-compilation
• you need a scriptable, license-compliant way to fetch Visual Studio build tools

When to avoid

• you only need MinGW/GCC-based cross-compilation, which needs no Wine
• you require redistributable toolchain artifacts - MSVC is non-redistributable
• you develop natively on Windows and don't need cross-compilation

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

compiler developer-tools build-tool developer-tools cross-platform windows cli python msvc wine cross-compilation windows-sdk clang-cl cmake linux docker

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