A native Lean binary for Windows can be generated using msys2. It is easy to install all dependencies, it produces native 64/32-binaries, and supports a C++11 compiler.
The official webpage of msys2 provides one-click installers.
We assume that you install msys2 at c:\msys64
.
Once installed it, you should run the "MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit shell" from the start menu.
It has a package management system, pacman, which is used in Arch Linux.
Here are the commands to install all dependencies needed to compile Lean on your machine.
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw-w64-x86_64-ninja mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake git
Then follow the generic build instructions in the msys2 shell.
You can use the install
ninja/make target to install Lean into, by, default,
C:\\User Programs (x86)\\LEAN
. To change this, add -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=path/you/want
to your cmake invocation.