First off, apologies in advance if I sound rude or offensive (since I give advice on a project I didn't contribute to and I don't know very well) - I don't mean to. To speed things up and get traction, you may be able to play with priorities. Make things like non-critical features of critical apps a...

I can't stop wondering why cygwin wasn't mentioned in this thread until now. It brings a compatibility layer dll plus several (I think thousands) de facto standard packages from Linux to the Windows console. Among other things, the whole linux build stack (automake, autoconf, configure, make, instal...