I and other guy are started a new glest based project called glevolution, it still not a really evolution
, but we could to fix bugs and improve it more fast than glest is going, for now I am working in a glevol_multiplayer a branch of this.
It have codeblocks projects file and compiling against Xerces 2.7 and a almost ready mingw port.
If anyone interested contact me
http://sourceforge.net/projects/glevolution