dawg hailstone! You just get on wit' yo' bad self!
Seriously, that's cool! I'll have to look at this when I have the time. I've considered writing some type of script to run the msvc++ build on my linux box from wine (just copying over a few of the command line .exe files from 2008 Express Edition and running them with a shell script). But a real solution would be better. An installer will make a lot of people happy!