i think that cygwin should be supported because not everyone has
access to the expensive MSVC. almost every windows developer
owns a copy of MSVC. but if you want that artists can compile
(the latest?) blender on win32, cygwin should be included.
it isn't that mutch work as it may sound. i could compile
several progs with cygwin where no port were made for win32.
but blender not yet. wait some ??? ....
"...speak in weeks not months... " to quote a famous artist and coder!
./configure make make install works.....and...yes! mostly with help!

this is mostly important for cvs checkouts not for the final release.
(am i right that the msvc binaries are still faster than gcc's?)
what do you think?
florian