Hello
I have made a Windows build of Inkscape that does not exhibit this long standing critical bug. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/173116
However, it requires changing the compiler. To build Inkscape and all other C++ libraries, I used TDM-GCC (a patched build of MinGW) version 4.4.1 with SJLJ unwinding. We don't use exceptions in performance critical code, so bothering with Dwarf2 to get a minimal perf gain while substantially increasing code size doesn't seem worth it. (SJLJ gtkmm is 3x smaller than the Dwarf2 one!) http://www.tdragon.net/recentgcc/
Therefore, a note to all Windows devs: when you update to revision 9 or later of devlibs, required by revision 9041 of Inkscape trunk, also change your compiler to TDM-GCC version 4.4.1. You can just download the .exe at the top, it contains everything that's required. You will need to rebuild from scratch after this (btool clean). http://sourceforge.net/projects/tdm-gcc/files/TDM-MinGW%20Installer/1.908.0/...
Install it into C:\mingw, as usual, or set MINGW_PATH to the directory where you installed it before executing mingwenv.bat.
Updated instructions for compiling on Windows: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape_on_Windows
Regards, Krzysztof