In the last episode (May 13), Marcus Agehall (Scanian) @ Pike (-) developers forum said:
I think it does, mostly. The problem with generating a native configure-script seems to come from some tool within mingw32 that doesn't work correctly. I didn't investigate futher then, but I probably will, as soon as I know where I can develop on win32.
Another option is cygwin's -mno-cygwin gcc flag, which should basically generate win32 executables like mingw, but autoconf etc might be happier since they'd run in Cygwin's more unixy environment.
On the other hand, if microsoft has some sort of unix-glue that is also interesting. Where can I read more about it? Is it free in some way or do I have to give up my left arm and right leg to have a copy?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/ is the main site. I was sure it had been mentioned in this list recently, but apparently not :) It requires windows 2000 or newer, and I don't think it generates standalone executables. You need the Interix subsystem running (similar to the cygwin support DLLs), so mingw is probably still the best choice for building portable binaries.
I have it installed just for the excellent NFS client and server.