It's pretty straight forward on Linux but is is quite hard on Windows, just installing GNU is a pain in the a**. I was never successful in building a Windows wallet myself (Paycoin or others).
People use the binaries released by the groups in control.
In my view he is correct in saying that nothing was fixed, you couldn't even sync the wallet with the blockchain without restarting it every 500 blocks before the updated version was released the the foundation last week!
No wonder everyone kept using online wallets.. lol