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• cygwin including gcc, make, etc 
  NOTE:  cygwin's link.exe application must be renamed, so that VC's link will be used for the build.
  renamed cygwin's link.exe to link_cyg.exe:
  http://root.cern.ch/root/roottalk/roottalk06/1448.html^{Image Removed}

• Python installation (currently 2.5.1 as of March 2008) 
  • While ROOT binaries are not distributed with this version of Python, we have doubled-checked that this is ok:
    http://root.cern.ch/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4359^{Image Removed}

Optional

• FFTW (currently 3.1.2 available from http://www.fftw.org/install/windows.html^{Image Removed})
• libxml2.6.15.win32 available from Planet Mirror
• gccxml available from http://www.gccxml.org/HTML/Index.html^{Image Removed}

Setting up

Once you have the ROOT source 

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Start cygwin via the command line:  bash --login -i
At the cygwin prompt, changed directories to the %ROOTSYS% dir and then ran configure:

./configure win32 --enable-roofit --enable-minuit2 --enable-table \
--enable-python --disable-odbc --enable-gdml \
--enable-unuran --enable-xrootd \
--enable-reflex --enable-cintex --with-fftw3-incdir=C:/heather/root-5root5.14d18b/fftw-3.1.2-dll \
--with-fftw3-libdir=C:/heather/root-5root5.14d18b/fftw-3.1.2-dll \
--with-gccxml=C:/heather/root-5root5.14d18b/gcc_xml \
--with-xml-incdir=C:/heather/root-5root5.14d18b/libxml2-2.6.15.win32/include \
--with-xml-libdir=C:/heather/root-5root5.14d18b/libxml2-2.6.15.win32/lib \
--with-python-libdir=C:/Python25/libs \
--with-python-incdir=C:/Python25/include --enable-mathmore --enable-mathcore --with-gsl-incdir=C:/heather/root5.18b/GSL/include --with-gsl-libdir=C:/heather/root5.18b/GSL/lib

Run make 

make
make cintdlls  (which seems to do nothing)
make map (also seems to do nothing)
make install