I try to build inkscape 0.43 and CVS snapshot on winXP, with latest mingw and perl/gtk2.8 as indicated on the win32 build page (http://inkscape.org/win32/win32buildnotes.html). The trouble is that some files seem to be missing from the 0.43 source archive found on inkscape website (for example, files under src/dom/js). These missing files make the build fail. When I try to build from a CVS snapshot (http://www.inkscape.org/cvs-snap/) I encounter other difficulties which seem to come from a broken CVS tree. Is it normal ? What is required to build 0.43?

It's normal that 0.43 don't has src/dom/js. Please report your bug. And yes, it's normal that cvs does not always compile: try again tomorrow. There is an automatic compile job that reports to the inkscape-tester list, where you can compare your problems with. See the archives

ralf