So my attempt to get acprep to run aclocal doesn't work. That explains libtool emitting the wrong commands. A little fiddling with the autoconf stuff got it working (I haven't minimized and verified the commands, but I think just aclocal -I m4 and ./config.status libtool are enough.).
The last thing missing from mingw is an implementation of strptime. I looked at a few and the one here is relatively self contained: http://googlesitemapgenerator.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/common/timesupport.cc I inserted it into the project using sha1.cpp/sha1.h as a model and the build completes successfully (to be clear, my primary goal is a working windows build and some documentation about doing that, any changes to the official sources that simplify those goals are a bonus). Next step is to try to get the tests working (the simple commands I have tried do work and at a glance do output correct values). Max
