Modifications towards making code compile on win

Modifications to make code compile on windows

It should compile with win32, but for several reasons does not yet work on my 64bit win8: I did not yet manage to get cppunit build 64bit code and also we are triggering a VC++ compiler bug in "Realse" mode. In "Debug" mode things should build as the bug is related to optimization routines.

Further changes following
Do you really mean `ia64`, as in the Itanium architecture? I was convinced that `architecture=x86  address-model=64` was the right thing and would mean x64.