I know Windows XP is ancient,but how do people legitimately get anything developed under Windows. It's legitimately frustrating. If it weren't for my sdcard wiping itself when I shutdown I'd probably be using Debian.

Wat

You install MingW with GCC or Clang, run your build scripts or makefiles, done. Super easy.

Well, it's much easier to develop on a version of Windows that isn't 18 years old and properly supports modern hardware...

Easy:
MingW, Git Bash, WSL, VM, environment variables and Paths.

A little bit of elbow grease to force things to work when they just don't, and tada, can develop anything, for any platform while having a decent gaming rig.

Try installing Debian 3.0 since that came out about the same time as XP 👍