Can you explain your workflow here? Do you cross compile to w32 on Linux and run the resulting exe on wine? In what ways is development faster?

On linux, just use the mingw c/c++ compiler and run/debug under wine. When it's time to run under windows, I compile under cygwin's mingw, and that usually just works.

I'll edit later today when I get a chance and post my makefiles / compiler opts to github.

Here is my quick-and-dirty cookbook:

https://eggplant.pro/blog/writing-win32-applications-with-mi...

If you need clarifications, just post a comment there.

As for faster, VS2017 takes minutes to load on my machine (which is fairly beefy BTW). Even back when VS was fast, I could still work faster with the old userland progs like vim, grep, make, etc...