+You may also use a hosted MinGW cross-compile toolchain, e.g., on Ubuntu or
+ArchLinux to build the libraries and tools.
+
+To build ncurses for native Windows with support for the new Windows 10 Virtual
+Terminal and PseudoConsole support, you should install at least version 8.0 of
+the mingw-w64-x86_64-headers package as it appears to have support for the
+required Windows SDK level. Please note that some of the Linux distributions
+are a bit behind with respect to the required MinGW header versions and you may
+not be able to properly build the libraries for current Windows 10 using these
+toolchains. Although it is a bit slow, MSYS2 on Windows 10 64-Bit is the
+authoritative build environment for the MinGW version of ncurses.
+
+Using MinGW is a pragmatic decision, it is the easiest way to port this