This tutorial will demonstrate how to set up a windows machine to develop, build, and deploy binaries for the crazyflie natively, without use of a VM. Some notes on the setup environment used to write this guide:

• Using windows 10 – no technical reason why this wouldn't work on Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 though.
• Whenever presented with a choice, x86 versions of the tools were chosen. It's important to keep this consistent since and x86 emulator wont' be able to call amd64 binaries, etc. Using all AMD64 should technically work, though.
• Cygwin was chosen for a unix environment since it's probably the most common option out there. As stated below, MinGW is probably the best option