Some great news for those of you who haven’t had a chance to upgrade to *BSD or GNU/Linux.
While not yet complete ROS is now one step closer to working on Windows using the Minimal GNU compiler toolchain thanks to the work of Daniel Stonier and Yujin Robot.
If you are a windows user and have experience using MinGW or cross compiling there is a tutorial showing how to use Qt with ROS on windows up for people interested in testing and improving ROS support for Windows.
[From: ros-users]
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