How can we ensure Bazaar (bzr) remains active?

[Richard Wilbur]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 1:45 AM, Vincent Ladeuil <v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr> wrote:
>>>>>> Clay Reed <clay_dakota at yahoo.com> writes:
>     > I can setup and do builds locally on fresh systems, but I don't know if
>     > that's acceptable.
>
> Most of the windows releases were built this way so your contribution
> will be welcome ;)
>
> The pain point regarding windows IMHO has always been precise
> instructions (or even better an automated script) to setup the dev
> environment required to build the installers.
>
> Any contribution in this area will be very valuable.

I have access to a windows 7 machine but haven't known what
development environment was needed to create the windows release.
It's a pretty bare install.

Can it be done with freely available tools?

Richard