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It seems like Msys2 and Cygwin are the ways to go for building, and there's a lot of talk about compiling all over the place in the forum.
As someone coming in new to the freeciv developing community, I was hoping to see if there is a preferred or better program for developing freeciv. Do you have a preference? Is there one I should avoid?

For windows msys2 is the environment.

See http://www.freeciv.org/wiki/Msys2_As_De ... nvironment

Thank you!

Your link also completely answered my question about building without installing (which I edited away).