Note: be aware that some other installers may modify your system PATH in a way that causes gedit to break.This will ensure that gedit appears in the list of editors for other text files you want to open in future. In the dialog, click Browse, then select c:\Program Files (x86)\gedit\bin\gedit.exe, and click OK to open the file. To ensure that Windows knows that gedit is a text editor, use Windows Explorer to navigate to c:\Program Files (x86)\gedit\share\doc and right-click on README, and select Open.
Problems may potentially arise in relation to 7-zip, gedit, NSIS or Subversion if administrator privileges are not available (but that's just guessing). It is known that the Python, MinGW etc can be installed by non-administrator users, but we haven't yet tested that scenario, unfortunately. These steps were completed by a user with administrator privileges. MinGW-w64 GCC 4.7.1 compiler suite, from TDM-GCC.With some fairly obvious changes, these instructions will also work for building 32-bit software using Windows XP 32-bit.
The build environment is capable of building both 64-bit and 32-bit software, although some manual editing of configuration files is required to switch between the two. These documents demonstrate a C/C++ software build environment for Windows, tested on Windows 8 Professional 64-bit.