Building freetype: - open freetype\freetype.sln Build configurations Release Multithreaded and Debug Multithreaded Building openssl: - make sure the command prompt is set for compiling with the visual studio compiler (vcvars32.bat) - make sure perl is in the path - run 'perl Configure VC-WIN32' in the openssl directory - run ms\do_masm.bat in the openssl directory - run nmake -f ms\nt.mak in the openssl directory Building pthreads: - goto pthreads directory - run nmake VC-static - run nmake VC-static-debug Building vcxsrv: - run mhmake MAKESERVER=1 in xorg-server directory