-You should install also the MSYS package, so that you've a shell environment
-that allows you to run the scripts, especially configure etc.
+To build ncurses for native Windows, you need the MinGW toolchain. The
+original MinGW toolchain from the above site is only for 32-Bit Windows. As
+Windows Server - and also regular workstations - are moving to 64-Bit, it
+seems to be reasonable to have a toolchain that supports both architectures.
+I recommend to use the TDM gcc toolchain which you can find at
+http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/download. Go to the download section and select
+the bundle installer for tdm64 (MinGW-w64). This installs a multilib version
+of the gcc toolchain that can compile for native 32- and 64-Bit Windows
+versions. It also comes with a working pthread implementation.
+
+The latest config and build scripts we use for MinGW have only been tested
+for the gcc-4.6.1 compiler toolchain (or better).