gedit for Windows Current steps to compile gEdit for Windows step 1) Download the tortoisesvn client for windows at: http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ step 2) Download MinGW, and do a full install. ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/mingw/ step 3) Download MSYS, and do a full install. http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?groupname=mingw&filename=MSYS-1.0.10.exe&use_mirror=superb-west step 4) create