It seems that the initial request is urgent - for a report. I wonder whether compiling STK is needed at all for that report. A compiled Windows version is already available on SF.
If compiling is necessary, does it have to happen on Windows (for that urgent report)? If not, personally I recommend compiling/building on Linux, since I think that for Linux, there are also enough information resources available in other languages than English. Besides, compiling/building is - in my humble opinion - not really the main domain of Windows.
A virtual Linux environment on a Windows machine can easily be snapshot, so it is no big problem to revert back to a clean install if something got messed up.
E.g., there is VirtualBox for free. Run Debian or Ubuntu as virtual machine on it (my personal favorites for such purposes). You would need no GUI, but could login via ssh and do the compilation etc. there, then move the made binary to your Window host machine for whatever you then want to do with it.
Besides, I am curious, what this report is about.
Good luck!