Hi everyone!
First of all, thank you for the contributions Vasileios! You have a valid point in the fact that using one build system would be better than two. After some research, it seems that Visual Studio actually started to support MinGW - at least to some extent. (
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/using-mingw-and-cygwin-with-visual-cpp-and-open-folder/) I plan on trying it out later this week, I will let you know what I have found out, I think it might be good to use autotools only if there were no major problems with it in VS, it would certainly make it simpler.
P.