Building libffi with MSVC

[John Emmas]

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I'm currently building libglib (using MSVC) for which I first need to build libffi.  However, from various things I've read, this doesn't seem to be possible without first installing cygwin.  Cygwin (apparently) is only needed for running the 'configure' utility.  Have I understood this correctly or is it possible to build libffi using MSVC but without needing Cygwin?

John Emmas