Install cygwin: http://www.cygwin.com/ http://cygwin.com/setup.exe Choose git and wget wget http://apt-cyg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/apt-cyg chmod +x apt-cyg mv apt-cyg /usr/local/bin/ apt-cyg install make gcc automake autoconf pkg-config openssl-devel expat zlib-devel libncurses-devel libncurses-devel libxml2-devel libglib2.0-devel libcurl-devel libidn-devel libssh2-devel libkrb5-devel openldap-devel ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-3.exe /usr/bin/gcc.exe ln -s /usr/bin/g++-3.exe /usr/bin/g++.exe mkdir projects-git git clone git://github.com/boothj5/profanity.git cd profanity git clone git://github.com/boothj5/head-unit.git cd head-unit make make install cd .. git clone git://github.com/metajack/libstrophe.git cd libstrophe ./bootstrap.sh ./bootstrap.sh ./configure make make install cd .. ./bootstrap.sh ./configure make make install