Compiling on Win32

Hi!

I am an experienced Linux user, but comparatively having no idea about
Windows. I guess this is why I am having major problems compiling
Chromium on my (KVM powered) WindowsXP.
I am very sure all necessary software packages are installed, including
Cygwin and MSVC8, but unfortunately this is also where documentation
ends at.
AFAICT there are two different approaches in building Chromium:
1) using the Cygwin shell (the window running bash in a Unix like
   filesystem) and
2) using the MSVC shell (simple cmd.exe with appropriate environment)

Using the first approach I am unable to run cl.exe. After adjusting the
$PATH variable cl.exe is being found, but no output occurs (when started
with strace.exe, a pop-up window is shown telling me about a missing
dll) - I love this s**t.

When trying the second approach, it starts with a missing make.exe.
After adjusting %PATH% here, windows.h is not found (yes, it's
%INCLUDE%). So I added C:\cygwin\include\w32api to the include-path, but
still no luck: at compilation, cl.exe complains about deprecated flags
(just warnings, so "/ignore"). Next I get lots of errors, the first few
telling me "alignment has changed after including <foobar.h>". (I guess
cl.exe doesn't like unix style newlines?)

Maybe someone of you could give me a short hint on how to setup a shell
(no matter which) environment correctly enough to be able to compile
Chromium?

Thanks in advance,
Phil

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