These instrctions are an abridged version of the instructions to build WireShark for Windows found here.
In this case, the regular traditional Windows Command Prompt is used for executing commands, not the Windows PowerShell.
Rather than using a mingw environment (for gcc) or using LLVM/clang, we opt to simply use Microsoft Visual Studio. However, the Chocolatey package manager provides builds for a number of additional tools that might make Windows development seem a bit more familiar for non-Windows developers.
First, we have to set up a [virtual machine](https://en.wikipedia