If you know enough to check all the projects out of CVS then you should look in docs/Compiling.txt. It should have most the information you need for building for Windows. It is easy once you have things set up ( usually the hardest bit ), usually something like:
1) Open workspace for project
2) Build \'All\' target
3) Make a sandwich while everything builds.
4) Repeat for all projects
If you need some info on CVS then I would suggest reading up on it on
http://www.sourceforge.com. They have some good docs there on how to use WinCVS.
If you really want to build things then I would really suggest building the newer version and running things ( a client and server ) locally ( unless you really want to play online with others. ) We are not supporting the current release very well now since so much of the internals have changed so any problems you get when building the old version may go unanswered since we tore out a lot of it
