> Do you get a pop up dialog appearing > Failed attempting to set 'path_prefix' in the configure script" OK
No because the 'path_prefix' is set correctly. As the path to the sh.exe isn't in the PATH (I haven't installed MSYS and use stripped files), Windows shows a message that it don't know how to open shell files. I can then set a path to the sh.exe and say open all shell files with this sh.exe. Then a registry entry is set, and Win don't bothers me the next time. But this isn't user friendly.
regards Uwe p.s. please CC answers to me