Place the dvdauthor-build directory in your cygwin home directory and run the following commands.

bash dvdauthor.sh --compressed --nocss --without-dvdcss --without-dvdauthor

manually patch and make dvdauthor:

unzip dvdauthor.tar.bz2 

cd dvdauthor  

patch -p0 < ../dvdauthor-mingw.patch
patch -p0 < ../dvdauthor-buttons.patch
patch -p0 < ../dvdauthor-fullsize.patch
patch -p0 < ../dvdauthor-nowarnings.patch
patch -p0 < ../dvdauthor-vobunit.patch
patch -p0 < ../dvdauthor-letterbox.patch
patch -p0 < ../dvdauthor-inout.patch
patch -p0 < ../dvdauthor-advd.patch
patch -p0 < ../dvdauthor-gfd.patch

./configure --prefix=/usr/dvdauthor 'LDFLAGS=-L/usr/dvdauthor/lib -static'
make

# Do not have to prefix to /usr/dvdauthor
# Only doing it to keep everything in one neat easy
# to remember location.
vcdimager:
cd libcdio
./configure --prefix=/usr/dvdauthor 'LDFLAGS=-L/usr/dvdauthor/lib -static'
make
make install

#Now copy the pkg_config files to a location that they can be found

cp /usr/dvdauthor/lib/pkgconfig/libcdio.pc /lib/pkgconfig/libcdio.pc
cp /usr/dvdauthor/lib/pkgconfig/libiso9660.pc /lib/pkgconfig/libcdio.pc
cp /usr/dvdauthor/lib/pkgconfig/libcdio_cdda.pc /lib/pkgconfig/libcdio.pc
cp /usr/dvdauthor/lib/pkgconfig/libcdio_paranoia.pc /lib/pkgconfig/libcdio.pc

cd vcdimager
./configure --prefix=/usr/dvdauthor 'LDFLAGS=-L/usr/dvdauthor/lib -static'
make
make install


coreutils
./configure --prefix=/usr/dvdauthor 'LDFLAGS=-L/usr/dvdauthor/lib -static'
make


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use cygcheck on output exe to see what dll's are needed.  Should only be cygwin1.dll


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####### another way without static build #############

cygwin instructions for building tools necessary for DeVeDe:

#dvdauthor#
Install libdvdread:
./configure --libdir=/lib
make
make install

download dvdauthor (lets say dvdauthor-0.6.14)
./configure --disable-shared
make


#vcdimager#
libiconv:
./configure
make
make install

libcdio:
./configure --libdir=/lib
make
make install

vcdimager:
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/lib/pkgconfig
./configure