<ul><li>The book 'Writing A C Compiler' is primarily designed to work on Linux and Mac, but the author, who is a Windows developer, was interested in making it work on Windows.</li><li>The book suggests using WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) as an alternative for running the compiler on Windows, but the author prefers to run natively on Windows.</li><li>The back end of the compiler targets the x64 instruction set, and the author intends to try targeting the hack cpu in nand2tetris.</li><li>The author utilizes Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot, which is helpful for writing emulators and compilers with repetitive code.</li></ul>

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