so, first time i tried to build libsecp256k1 on windows, it seems that i did it inside a cygwin installation somehow
it worked, and i was running it
then, afterwards, i forgot how i did it, and three times tried to get it working with msys2 mingw64
never worked, always linker errors, and i followed all the best instructions i could find
so, now i am installing cygwin again, and suddenly it all comes flooding back "oh yeah i remember installing this"... shit... i hope this works though, it was very nice being able to do cgo stuff native in windows inside a bash shell without the prophylactic container layer of WSL2, which makes everything shittier
i still miss my middle click paste but the assholes in linux land are all millennials and never learned how to use X properly and they all think that fucking wayland is actually serious software, and not the joke that it actually is... people who started out using man to learn how to use stuff before the info invasion, who used ifconfig and netstat for networks not this dumbass ip and ss tools
oh well, here's hoping that i remembered correctly that it was cygwin that gave me a working libsecp256k1 and i can continue working finally
