mingw build?

[John W. Eaton]

On  8-Jun-2011, fork wrote:

| I am sorry to be whiny and helpless, but ....
| 
| ... does anyone know when the next mingw standalone build will come out?
| 
| Many of us are forced to use brain dead OS'es at work, don't have the 
experience
| to build on a MS system (I have successfully built octave on Unix), and would
| LOVE to be able use 3.4.1 for projects.  
| 
| On a sort of related note, maybe someone could put a build environment on 
github
| or savannah so us newbie hackers might try our hand at making a windows build
| ourselves?  As it is, I have no idea where to even start.
| 
| Thanks for your all's patience, and if there is some way I can help in my very
| amateur way, let me know.

I'm considering building binaries for Windows and selling them with
optional support contracts.  Would you buy one for your work
environment if it were available?  Would you pay for support?

jwe