How to compile moonshot-ui from git on MS Windows using mingw and MSYS
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I recommend you set up a build environment according to the following page:

  http://afuera.me.uk/jhbuild-windows/

However, use the configuration file in the source tree at ./windows/jhbuildrc
instead of creating a new one. You can tell jhbuild to use that file by running

  jhbuild -f jhbuildrc <...>

You will also need to install the following extras:

  * MS Windows Platform SDK v7.0 and .NET framework 3.5:

      https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=c17ba869-9671-4330-a63e-1fd44e0e2505&displaylang=en

    You need the 'Win32 Developer Tools' component for MIDL.EXE, the rest are
    not important.

  * Windows Installer XML 3.5:

      http://wix.codeplex.com/releases/view/60102

  * ImageMagick (for converting .svg icons to .png in 'make icons'):

     http://www.imagemagick.org/download/binaries/ImageMagick-6.6.9-10-Q16-windows-dll.exe

I suggest you put all these things in their default locations, the installers
seem to mostly ignore attempts to install them in other places.

You currently also need a patched version of the w32api mingw package, to
expose some RPC functions. This is on the mingw issue tracker here:

  https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3302807&group_id=2435&atid=302435

Until the fix gets merged, download the following patched version and simply
extract into c:\tools\mingw:

  http://afuera.me.uk/junk/w32api-3.17-2-mingw-patch3302807-dev.tar.lzma

(Alternately you can fetch the source for the w32api package from
 www.sourceforge.net/projects/mingw and apply the patch yourself)

You will need to compile and install the msrpc-mingw package.

You can then build moonshot from the MSYS shell:

  ACLOCAL="aclocal -I/c/build/share/aclocal" PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/c/build/lib/pkgconfig \
  ./autogen.sh --prefix=/c/build --disable-maintainer-mode
  make
  make icons
  make installer


Weird things that might go wrong
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MSYS is a little fragile, here are some things to try if you get weird failures
of any component:

# Make sure your PATH looks like this:
#   /c/build/bin:/c/tools/python:/usr/local/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin
# so that there are no entries before these that might override a shell tool.

# Sometimes TMP is set and this breaks some of the tools
export TMP=

# Make