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GNU Go is being developed on Unix variants. GNU Go is easy to build and install on those platforms. GNU Go 3.6 has support for building on MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows NT/2000 and Windows 95/98.
There are two approaches to building GNU Go on Microsoft platforms.
One benefit of this approach is that it is easier to participate in GNU Go's development. These unix environments come for instance with the `diff' and `patch' programs necessary to generate and apply patches.
Another benefit of the unix environments is that development versions (which may be stronger than the latest stable version) can be built too. The supporting files for VC are not always actively worked on and consequently are often out of sync for development versions, so that VC will not build cleanly.
The rest of this section gives more details on the various ways to compile GNU Go for Microsoft platforms.