Improved is an understatement, it built flawlessly. Thank you for taking the time to look into that.

I'll start playing around with it but I'm not much of a coder. I think it would be best to leave this to people who have experience with coding, and can actually understand what it is in these files. No worries though, installed debian on a virtual machine and put it together there.

As someone who didn't have a non-windows box up until now, a windows batch file would be really useful. I did give cygwin and mingw a shot, but it seemed to run into some permission issues while executing mcppatch.pl on windows 7. I don't know enough to say whether that was due to my own error while...