-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 above site is only for 32-Bit Windows. As
+Windows Server - and even more and more 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 be tested
+for the gcc-4.4 compiler toolchain (or better).