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I just found a very old article of mine, which got published in Dr. Dobb's Journal, the Tech Tips section, on October 1, 2003!  The title of the article was Preventing Class Derivation in Visual C++ .NET.  Either see that link, or read on if you're interested.

Alon Bar-Lev seems to have convinced OpenVPN developers to update the autoconf scripts so that a correct config-win32.h is generated, so now the Windows build environment for OpenVPN works again!  To generate the config-win32.h file, run the below commands in an MSYS prompt:

Thanks to Alon, James, and other OpenVPN developers for the great software!

OpenVPN is a great project.  It's a shame that their Windows compilation is this painful.  After spending hours trying to compile OpenVPN 2.1_rc7 on Windows using Visual C++, I thought I'd document the process for the benefit of others, and for my own future reference.