1. xmlrpc preparation for mingw:

    # checkout latest trunk
    svn co http://xmlrpc-c.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xmlrpc-c/trunk xmlrpc-c

    # apply patch
    [verem@dev-1 xmlrpc-c.r2210]$ patch -p0 < ../xmlrpc-c-mingw32.v1.patch
    patching file lib/abyss/src/conf.c
    patching file lib/curl_transport/xmlrpc_curl_transport.c
    patching file lib/libutil/time.c
    patching file include/xmlrpc-c/select_int.h
    patching file include/Makefile

    # configure
    ./configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --prefix=/home/verem/devel/xmlrpc-c.win32 --disable-libwww-client

    # build
    make

    # after error happens on nametab generation:
    #
    # [...]
    #../gennmtab/gennmtab >nametab.h
    #/bin/sh: ../gennmtab/gennmtab: cannot execute binary file
    # [...]
    #
    # re-run binary generation for platform
    gcc -I. lib/expat/gennmtab/gennmtab.c -o lib/expat/gennmtab/gennmtab

    # and continie build
    make

    # install it
    make install