Building Elsa on windows

Question

How would I build elsa under windows?

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~smcpeak/elkhound/sources/elsa/

A visual studio would be preferable or something I can link with using visual studio,

Answer 1

Try compile it under Cygwin.

Download the Cygwin install, select GCC and Flex, Perl, etc. Install that stuff, then follow the normal build process, once in Cygwin.