Windows build issues

[Mitchell, Neil]

Hi

> >My preference is to use the latest versions, otherwise we'll 
> run into 
> >some other bug and the mingw people will (legitimately) tell 
> us to use 
> >a newer version, requiring us to upgrade everything anyway. I think 
> >Claus disagrees with me on this.
> 
> Actually, I don't disagree. A bit of background: before that 
> log, the wiki pages simply said get the latest versions of 
> everything, and every single time I had to do that on a new 
> machine, something else would go wrong (autoconf, mingw, 
> cygwin, ..). So that log was an attempt to give one single 
> known-to-work reference path. The generic "try the newest 
> versions, but watch out for .." instructions are still there, 
> the log was just added at the end, for users who prefer 
> concrete and simple.

Ah, now that seems a really good idea. I'll be getting a home computer
in the next month, so will prepare a set of instructions then, and test
them out on my new machine. I guess the way to keep a list such as this
up to date is to keep a Virtual Machine around, and reinstall from
scratch every so often.

Thanks

Neil

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