Geany on WSL ... Reference
thanks @ elextr for the nudge.
One more idea, how about - providing the vte/libvte as an msys2 package (for the msys subsystem)? - the same `PKGBUILD` [package receipe] for providing lib/vte to arch linux can be a good starting point for that.
[package receipe]: https://www.msys2.org/wiki/Creating-Packages/
the msys subsystem of msys2 supports linux applications.
It provides a Unix-like environment, ... The msys subsystem provides an emulated mostly-POSIX-compliant environment ...
- [MSYS2-Intro]
[msys2-intro]: https://www.msys2.org/wiki/MSYS2-introduction/