That's a half the time it took me. I had to apply patches from news groups and take MingW headers from CVS (because the official release broke the build). On t

That's a half the time it took me. I had to apply patches from news groups and take MingW headers from CVS (because the official release broke the build). On the other hand, once I compiled the libraries, I had no issues interfacing it with code in Visual C++ \C#. The source files are fairly clean and documented enough that I could mostly figure out what to do by looking at the code.