windows build env

[David De La Harpe Golden]

Would someone on windows who doesn't use MSVC mind briefly describing 
their current build environment to me (offlist I suppose)?

I'm looking again at building emacs under wine with mingw/gnuwin32/msys. 
 The wine-1.2 release seems to have a heap of improvements and things 
are nearly working - I have a running wine-built emacs but still had to 
intervene during build to kill a few hung/crashed processes, during 
compilation of lisp/hilit-chg.el,  eshell, tramp and vc.

apart from some annoying wine cmd.exe deficiencies, it seems to be just 
diff/patch and networking spawned processes that are sulking, but I'm 
thinking maybe that's because I've got the "wrong" ones installed 
(particularly suspicious of the msys stuff).

e.g. hung process during build of lisp/hilit-chg.el :
    msys\1.0\bin\patch.exe -z. b