I have been going through the same process and finding it quite hard work initially.
You may notice that I updated the wiki page with an alternative way of effectively achieving the same thing. You might want to update that page with your own findings/ecperience. Getting it more ccurate and comprehensive can only be a good thing
I think it will be a good idea if a number of developers start using the Windows environment as their primary one. I am sure that there are a number of areas in which Calibre could have minor changes to make it perform better in a Windows environment. I know that kovid wants to keep Calibre OS neutral, but as it is likely that a significant proportion of Calibre users are Windows based small tweaks that have large benefits might be acceptable, particularily if he does not have to develop and test them
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