Vin, I tried to build a native binary using VS Community 2013. The underlying VS is the 2012 version. First I ran into the problem of mismatching versions of optional libs. The config.inc was expecting different versions from the versions installed by optional_libs.exe . I changed the versions in config.inc ,. That was easy. Next I started running into real problems. I see two kinds of errors. One kind is to do with missing manifest files. Another kind has to do with keywords being used in macros (or something like that). Doing some Googling, I saw that adding a pragma (as follows) may help with the second kind of error, I added the following pragma to config.h.in (around line # 899) but it didn't seem to help really. #pragma warning (1 : 4005) Anyways, here is the log file from the build attempt. -Biswajit