Purpose: gather together tips and techniques, tool recommendations, etc. for compiling Tcl and related extensions on a Windows machine.
Steve Blinkhorn wrote on comp.lang.tcl recently [change this into a google reference to [email protected]] praising the Mingw C compiler distribution as being the way one can compile the same code on windows as well as various unix systems.
Those who have the financial wherewithall to buy Visual C++ have been advocating its use, as the executables are better.