Nevermind, I got it to work woooohooo
I went for a rather drastic method of reinstallation, can´t say which of the steps actually gave the success
Re-downloaded all the latest drivers for my system (even though I had done that just a week ago or so)
Re-formatted my HDD, created just ONE partition C:\ and installed a fresh WinXP
Installed XP drivers
Re-downloaded your whole list from above and re-installed everything
After I had copied the wxmsw26u_gcc_cb.dll and mingwm10.dll into the C::B folder I´ve started it, created a new test and (hooray) it WORKS
Don´t ask me how, or what I did different in this installation, I´m just glad I got it working (saved your instructions from above for next time)
Many many thanks for your help and patience, I owe you one
Shall I add one good hint for you?
Last night while messing around, I had found a posting at
http://aarongiles.com/?p=199After I had C::B working I´ve started all over, re-formatted the HDD, re-installed everything again, only this time I´ve created a 2nd partition X:\, and installed MinGW + C::B there, made the neccessary adjustments (took me a while to find them all)
Then I took out the HDD, plugged in another (empty HDD) and installed Vista on it (only thing I made sure of, there is no drive letter X:\ on the Vista drive)
After Vista was up and running (I´ve made sure I´m using only hardware supported by Vista), I plugged the first HDD back in, set it in BIOS as 2nd drive and booted Vista
In addition with the 3 fixes I found in that posting, C::B runs perfectly smooth under Vista (at least with my miniature scripts)