After a couple of days fixing a few minor bugs, I have got Cherokee (trunk) to build and work on Windows again! Of course, it does not use Cygwin or any other additional layer.

To say the truth it hasn't been as tough as I thought it would be. The hardest part was to take the first step: install Windows and the development environment in a virtual machine. The rest was fairly straight forward, actually.

Anyway, I have learnt a couple of interesting things along the way:

• The "Msys + MinGW + msysDTK + Emacs + Python + a few misc missing utilities" bundle is not trivial to install. So I have packaged it up for the next the I need it (Cherokee-Win32-comp).
• The rxvt I/O has been broken for a long time now. The best workaround I have found is to edit the msys.bat file and comment out the startxrvt invocation.

Anyway, I will continue polishing our Windows build for a few more days.. <sighhhhhh>