All i need to do was download awk (and make sure it could be found in my %path%).
With VS6.0 it simply compiles.
With VS8.0 (2005) i get a couple (currently 1000+) of deprecated function warnings but it seems to compiles nevertheless.. (will post again when it has finished... compiling with vs8 takes much longer than with vs6)
(actually, 1248 warnings and 48 errors... now i've removed abs, mod_deflate and mod_ssl from the build... let's see what it gives..)
(4errors, removed lines 128, 129, 130, 131, 132 and 133 from Makefile.win and i was ready to go...

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(I noticed that the compiler complained about a couple of errors while i was trying to compile zlib from source. This can be fixed by prepending "dword ptr" to the second argument of the movd instructions on lines647, 649, 663 and 720 in srclib/zlib/contrib/masmx86/inffas32.asm. Tomorrow i'll check if they can use a patch

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