-It is known to work using:
-- MingW 5.1.6
-- MSYS 1.0.11
-- libpthread 2.8.0 (from MinGW or directly from pthread-win32)
-- readline 5.0 from gnuwin32
+The following is a complete list of packages required to build the compile environment:
+
+- MSYS-1.0.11
+- binutils-2.20-1-mingw32-bin
+- gcc-c++-4.4.0-mingw32-bin
+- gcc-c++-4.4.0-mingw32-dll
+- gcc-core-4.4.0-mingw32-bin
+- gcc-core-4.4.0-mingw32-dll
+- gmp-4.2.4-mingw32-dll
+- mingwrt-3.17-mingw32-dev
+- mingwrt-3.17-mingw32-dll
+- mpfr-2.4.1-mingw32-dll
+- perl-5.8.6-4.tar (minimal from cygwin)
+- pthreads-w32-2.8.0-3-mingw32-dev
+- readline-5.0-1-bin
+- w32api-3.14-mingw32-dev