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Improve section about building on Windows via MSYS2 

* Make it clear where to find the "Building this straight" section
* Give more details about reducing the list of dependencies to be
  installed
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@ -194,12 +194,16 @@ it as an existing build (instead of adding a new build configuration).
##### Remarks for building on Windows
To create a development build on Windows, it is most straight forward to use the `devel-qt6` preset in a
MSYS2 mingw64 shell. Set the `BUILD_DIR` environment variable and then run the following commands:
MSYS2 mingw64 shell. Set the `BUILD_DIR` environment variable to specify the directory to store build
artefacts.
Run the following commands to build one of my applications and its `c++utilities`/`qtutilities` dependencies
in one go:
```
# install dependencies
# install dependencies; you may strip down this list depending on the application and features to enable
pacman -Syu git perl-YAML mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw-w64-x86_64-ccache mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake mingw-w64-x86_64-boost mingw-w64-x86_64-cppunit mingw-w64-x86_64-qt6-base mingw-w64-x86_64-qt6-declarative mingw-w64-x86_64-qt6-tools mingw-w64-x86_64-qt6-svg mingw-w64-x86_64-clang-tools-extra mingw-w64-x86_64-doxygen mingw-w64-x86_64-ffmpeg mingw-w64-x86_64-go
# clone repositories as mentioned under "Building this straight"
# clone repositories as mentioned under "Building this straight" in the application's README file
cd /path/to/store/sources
...
git clone ...
@ -213,6 +217,11 @@ cmake --build --preset devel-qt6 -- -v
Note that:
* not all those dependencies are required by all my projects and some are just optional.
* Especially `mingw-w64-x86_64-go` is only required when building Syncthing Tray with built-in
Syncthing-library enabled.
* All Qt-related dependencies are generally only required for building with Qt GUI, e.g. Tag Editor
and Password Manager can be built without Qt GUI. The libraries `c++utilities` and `tagparser` don't
require Qt at all.
* you can also easily install Qt Creator via MSYS2 using `pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-qt-creator`.
* you must *not* use the presets containing `mingw-w64` in their name as those are only intended for cross-compilation
on Arch Linux.