troubles compiling ext/mcrypt/ on windows

Hi there, (I'm cc'ing you sascha because you seem to be the author of this area of mcrypt, I apologize if you are not and/or are bothered by this) I downloaded the source for php-4.0.6 today and attempted to compile mcrypt functionality into a windows version of php. I opened ext/mcrypt/mcrypt.dsp into VC++ and attempted to "build the project". I get these errors when attempting to do so: --------------------Configuration: mcrypt - Win32 Debug_TS-------------------- Compiling... mcrypt.c C:\php4\php-4.0.6\ext\mcrypt\mcrypt.c(1480) : warning C4018: '<' : signed/unsigned mismatch C:\php4\php-4.0.6\ext\mcrypt\mcrypt.c(1490) : warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'double ' to 'char ', possible loss of data readdir.c C:\php4\php-4.0.6\ext\mcrypt\mcrypt.c(802) : warning C4700: local variable 'lib_dir' used without having been initialized C:\php4\php-4.0.6\ext\mcrypt\mcrypt.c(825) : warning C4700: local variable 'lib_dir' used without having been initialized C:\php4\php-4.0.6\ext\mcrypt\mcrypt.c(848) : warning C4700: local variable 'lib_dir' used without having been initialized C:\php4\php-4.0.6\ext\mcrypt\mcrypt.c(871) : warning C4700: local variable 'lib_dir' used without having been initialized C:\php4\php-4.0.6\ext\mcrypt\mcrypt.c(894) : warning C4700: local variable 'lib_dir' used without having been initialized C:\php4\php-4.0.6\ext\mcrypt\mcrypt.c(912) : warning C4700: local variable 'lib_dir' used without having been initialized C:\php4\php-4.0.6\ext\mcrypt\mcrypt.c(931) : warning C4700: local variable 'lib_dir' used without having been initialized Linking... LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file "libmcrypt.lib" Error executing link.exe. php_mcrypt.dll - 1 error(s), 9 warning(s) I'm NOT concerned about the first 2 warnings, it's more the next ones. it seems to be having trouble on line 204 (mcrypt.c) which is a call to Z_STRVAL_PP(lib_dir) Could this be why the linking cannot occur? NOTE: I followed all the steps here before attempting to compile mcrypt, ie instaled cygwin, etc. (I don't if it matters, probably?) Another NOTE: you may want to strip my email address from your reply OR take out the underscores. thanks for your help, colin