I use conan as a dependency manager for a large C++ project. The project was built for Linux and I am porting it to Windows.

Due to this I am compiling with mingwin since that development environment is closer to mine.

However, conan knows it's running on windows and so it downloads windows binaries.

I am finding that although compilation works, linking fails because mingwin binaries and MSVC binaries are incompatible.

I am not sure if I need to try to instruct meson (my build system) to use cl as the compiler, or trick conan to download Linux libraries instead of windows.