> The first is GUI, huge, and complicated, *Edit: I thought I was answering a question about how to compile Fossil, not SQLite. I'm on the wrong forum. Sorry....* I'm sure it has all the GUI bloat in it. But does it not also have the "nmake" and "cl" commands, which are all you really need to do a build? I do the 64-bit windows builds [on the website][1] using VS2015. In a command prompt window, I type: ~~~~~ nmake -f Makefile.msc FOSSIL_ENABLE_SSL=1 clean fossil.exe ~~~~~ No GUI ever gets involved. I don't do GUIs. See the [Release Build How-To][1] wiki page for details. [1]: https://fossil-scm.org/fossil/uv/download.html [2]: https://fossil-scm.org/fossil/wiki?name=Release+Build+How-To