Greetings,

I wanted to build the latest bzr trunk version of Emacs for Windows
but soon realized that the makefiles and the configure process have
lots of problems.

I'm attaching four patches that fix enough of the problems that
building and installing with a modern Cygwin (I'm talking about
building and installing a native Windows binary, not a Cygwin one)
works now.  Mingw/MSYS remains broken (I started to fix that too
but got disgusted by MSYS' automatic path conversion that cannot
even be toggled off, and decided not to continue).  Visual
C++/nmake combination is broken too but the first problems I faced
were not related to the build system but Visual Studio .NET 2003's
inability to compile the code (some missing types, use of inline
keyword).  Perhaps later versions work better.  I'll try that when
I get my hands on one.

The patches were generated with git format-patch (and thus include
commit messages that provide information about what was done) but
they can be applied with "patch -p1" to a Bazaar repository.  They
are as attachments because some of them change line endings from
CRLF to LF and I'm hoping to avoid any screwups with that.  In case
you find them useful, note that I haven't signed papers with FSF
(I'm hoping I don't have to, as the majority of the changes are
rather systematic search&replace operations).

Hannu