Steps for compiling a Freeciv server with Authentication support on Windows: 1. * Install Cygwin and necessary packages for compilation (autoconf, automake) 2. * Install minimal MinGW (MinGW-5.1.3.exe [1]) 3. * Install MinGW Utils (mingw-utils-0.3.tar.gz [2]) 4. * Configure path to use MinGW for compilation 5. * Install gettext (gettext-0.14.5.zip [3] [ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gnome/platform/2.13/2.13.92/win32/dependencies/gettext-0.14.5.zip (alternate)] and gettext-dev-0.14.5.zip [4] [ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gnome/platform/2.13/2.13.92/win32/dependencies/gettext-dev-0.14.5.zip (alternate)]) 6. * Apply gettext-S2_0-S2_1-2007-08-19.diff [ftp://ftp.freeciv.org/freeciv/packages/windows/patches/2.1.0/gettext-S2_0-S2_1-2007-08-19.diff] (alternate) 7.