Has anyone ever successfully compiled vowpal wabbit on a windows 7 machine?
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I am trying to compile vowpal wabbit on a `windows 7` machine and after trying `netbeans`, `cygwin` and `mingw` I'm starting to wonder if I'm trying something that's even feasible.

Each of the above has required ****.h files that aren't designed for windows such as sys/socket.h.

Anyone that has actually done this, I would appreciate any suggestions.
