Ok, something more of an official announcement for the win-ros-pkg repository.

We have a mingw compiled ros working (minimally for windows) and also started a stack to handle development of the tools and utilities. Some links if you are interested in diving in::

Some tutorials

http://www.ros.org/wiki/diamondback/Installation/Windows
http://www.ros.org/wiki/win_ros
http://www.ros.org/wiki/mingw_cross/Tutorials/Mingw%20Build%20Environment
http://www.ros.org/wiki/win_ros/Tutorials/Mingw%20Runtime%20Environment
http://www.ros.org/wiki/win_ros/standalone_clients

To contact us, bug reporting, feature requests:

http://www.ros.org/wiki/win-ros-pkg/Contact

Note that this is only early days yet - only the core packages have been patched and we're also working on native msvc support, but any and all are welcome to test and even better, contribute.

Regards,

Daniel Stonier.