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Presumably, they're trying to build for Windows and according to llama.cpp's documentation this might require the MSVC toolchain. Honestly, a lot of applications use the MSVC toolchain so it's not that special. Besides, CUDA (but not HIP) is available in WSL2 so depending on GPU they could just use that.
Also, apparently they can't log into GitHub without the Microsoft Authenticator app. Now, I haven't logged into GitHub in a long time but I do deal with Microsoft's SSO for my job and a generic TOTP app works just fine there. (And when I checked GitHub's documentation on the issue it said "download a TOTP app of your choice" so I don't see how Microsoft's app is supposed to be required.)