Howdy, The build instructions for Win32 developers ( http://inkscape.org/win32/win32buildnotes.html) point to a zip file with a self-contained Mingw installation:
<blockquote> *Note: Temporarily, I suggest that people use the preassembled Mingw working directory that we have assembled herehttp://inkscape.org/win32/mingw-0510112028.zip. It has the important pieces set up to compile the way we need them. Unzip it to c:\mingw.* </blockquote>
This is great, except that the installation is missing some files. When I tried to build Inkscape on a fresh copy of Windows XP with this package, I encountered several build errors. To solve the problem, I unpacked the following official Mingw packages on top of the broken Inkscape-provided installation:
gcc-core-3.4.2-20040916-1.tar.gzhttp://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/gcc-core-3.4.2-20040916-1.tar.gz?download gcc-g++-3.4.2-20040916-1.tar.gzhttp://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/gcc-g++-3.4.2-20040916-1.tar.gz?download mingw-runtime-3.9.tar.gzhttp://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/mingw-runtime-3.9.tar.gz?download w32api-3.5.tar.gzhttp://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/w32api-3.5.tar.gz?download
This fixed the issues. Now that my Mingw install works, I've packed it up into an archive and placed it at www.swansontec.com/temp/mingw.7z. It would be great if someone with access to the server could replace the existing Mingw package with this one. The current URL is just my temporary file-transfer space, so the file needs to move to a more permananet home before linking to it.
-s_tec