command line tool that can launch commands in a visual studio environment without launching vcvars.bat.
This means it can build software that require you to be in a visual studio environment without leaving your bash shell.
go install github.com/ksophocleous/withvs
provided that $GOPATH/bin is in your path, you can do withvs --vs12 -- ${ANY_COMMAND}
This will launch the visual studio environment (by default it will launch the 64 bit environment but it can be changed by passing the --32 parameter)
It also removes mingw from the PATH to prevent any misconfigurations from incorrect configure scripts.