Build my plugins on a new Windows machine

[Frankbeat]

So far, I only compiled my plugins for mac and all worked fine. Now a friend switched to a new windows machine and want's to have them run on there. Since I'm not familiar with Windows, can you please tell me, what (free) tools I need to compile for a recent Windows?

Would this be just the Visual Studio Community Edition?

[d.healey]

@Frankbeat yes