“Build Requirements: Install Visual Studio”.

You’ve never experienced genuine pain in your life. Have you tried to change the GCC compiler version in Linux?

   apt install gcc-11

   CC=gcc-11 make 
?

If it’s not packaged and you’ve got to build it yourself, Godspeed. An if you’ve got to change libc versions…

GCC is surprisingly simple to build, fortunately.

Yeah it’s not too bad, but it does pull away from “so trivial it fits in a flippant HN comment”

Does it? Admittedly, it has been a while but I don't remember it differing too much from the good old ./configure && make paradigm with a few flags to both commands.

It’d fit in a comment, but not a flippant one ;)