Comment by yellowapple

> If you're just a guy trying to compile a C application on Windows, and you end up on the mingw-w64 downloads page, it's not exactly smooth sailing: https://www.mingw-w64.org/downloads/

One of the options on that page is MSYS2, which I specifically listed above alongside MinGW-w64. And that download page is much smoother sailing: https://www.msys2.org/

There are other options on the MinGW-w64 page, but most of those are for cross-compiling from non-Windows operating systems (which conceivably could include something running on WSL these days), and of the Windows-host options, the only two with “many” packages are Cygwin and MSYS2 (though WinLibs looks interesting).