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Re:W64devkit – Portable C and C++ Development Kit for x64 Wi... by stinos on Friday September 25, 2020 @03:36AM (#24587490)
weighing in at 45MB.

That's the packed size though, which is indeed pretty small. Unpacked is 540mb which is roughly the same as mingw-w64 which comes with MSYS2, just with added make/boost etc. Installation is (a bit) simpler than MSYS2 though, the possibility of just downloading/extracting/usbale is really nice. Though for actual longer term applications this could get annoying quickly with respect to updating (just downloading again?), installing additional packages (not possible?).

Re:W64devkit – Portable C and C++ Development Kit for x64 Wi... by swiley on Friday September 25, 2020 @07:07AM (#24588591)
For anyone that hasn't needed openssl on windows: The package manager is an exceptionally nice feature.