Win32 port status?

[Jari Turkia]

Hello!

Plain and simple: What is the Win32 port status?

I needed to send SMSes from Windows platform and found out that existing 
Win32 binaries are either out-of-date or non-working. Since I use MS 
development tools on a regular basis, it was not too difficult to build 
a working binary with MS Visual Studio 2005. I also saw the instructions 
for Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 by Robert Thomson but in my case 
that was a bit late.

In brief: A Win32 binary can be built from latest source. There are some 
changes and bugs that would have to be stored into CVS (the getopt_long 
declaration bug is a nasty one!) so that further releases would compile 
a bit more painlessly. To me it looks like Win32 source is not actively 
maintained. If that is the case, I will volunteer for that task. I 
certainly would appreciate help from any other interested person. Like 
most of you, I have a full time job as a programmer, but still would 
like to contribute for this project.

My idea would be to achieve a working code base for freely available MS 
tools, namely Visual Studio Express 
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/) and already obsoleted 
Visual C++ Toolkit 2003. To me it looks like there is no point in trying 
to maintain any older commercial development tool versions (VC 6 or 4.2 
for example). Also a ready built binary version for each new release 
would be needed. And as an additional bonus, I'm sure I could hack up a 
system to run a nightly build for Win32 version too.

So, how does that sound like?

Regards,
Jari Turkia