motivation status of native windows nix using MinGW from my series libnix. last post we were looking into nix on windows from the nix master branch which uses MinGW. in this post we’ll focus on volth’s work running nix on windows back in the year 2020. introduction volth ported nix to windows in ~2020. using nix-build he was able to build boost 1.74 using a msvc 2019 toolchain: \bin\nix-build.exe