The following build script works for me. It assumes you have a working msys/mingw install. Read comments for additional depends.

{{{
#!/bin/sh

# builds gstreamer, the base, good & ffmpeg plugin packs, and all the runtime deps *I* use, with MinGW/MSYS
# everything's targeted at /build, so make sure you don't have other stuff there in advance
# takes about 2h on a reasonably high-end box.


#prerequisites:
# need pkg-config in /mingw - http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/pkg-config-0.20.zip
# need glib in /mingw - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/glib/2.14/glib-2.14.5.zip
# need intl in /mingw - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/gettext-runtime-0.17-1.zip
# need one more intl in /mingw - http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnuwin32/libintl-0.14.4-bin.zip
# need iconv in /mingw - http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnuwin32/libiconv-1.9.2-1-bin.zip
# need bison in /mingw - http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnuwin32/bison-2.1-bin.zip
# need flex in /mingw - http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnuwin32/flex-2.5.4a-1-bin.zip
# need bash 3 for msys, in / - http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mingw/bash-3.1-MSYS-1.0.11-1.tar.bz2
# need all the source tarballs for deps. base names listed at end of the script


# Want to edit this thing while it's running, and timing's handy as well
if [ -z "`echo $0 | grep tmp.bld.sh`" ]
then
  cp -v $0 "`dirname $0`/tmp.bld.sh"
  exec /bin/sh -c "time \"`dirname $0`/tmp.bld.sh\""
fi

basedir="`pwd`"

# Vista UAC heuristics is the worst piece of crap ever. "it's named install so it MUST run as admin"
[ -f /bin/ins.exe ] || cp /bin/install.exe /bin/ins.exe

export INSTALL="/bin/ins"


# Everything assumes you're installing to /build
# force-including one header just for the fun of it.
export CFLAGS="-I/build/include -I/mingw/include -mms-bitfields -include mingwstuff.h"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/build/lib/pkgconfig
export CXXFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
export LDFLAGS="-Wl,--enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc -L/build/lib -L/mingw/lib"
export PATH="$PATH:/build/bin"



# mingw lacks some headers.... Probably a correct way of getting them, but this is easier.
if [ ! -f /mingw/include/alloca.h ]
then
  echo '#ifndef allocaH' > /mingw/include/alloca.h
  echo '#define allocaH' >> /mingw/include/alloca.h
  echo '#include <stdlib.h>' >> /mingw/include/alloca.h
  echo '#ifndef alloca' >> /mingw/include/alloca.h
  echo 'void * alloca(int);' >> /mingw/include/alloca.h
  echo '#endif' >> /mingw/include/alloca.h
  echo '#endif' >> /mingw/include/alloca.h
fi

echo '#ifndef mingwstuffH' > /mingw/include/mingwstuff.h
echo '#define mingwstuffH' >> /mingw/include/mingwstuff.h
echo '#define HAVE_INLINE 1' >> /mingw/include/mingwstuff.h
echo '#define HAVE_ATEXIT 1' >> /mingw/include/mingwstuff.h
echo '#define SIZE_T_MAX 4294967295' >> /mingw/include/mingwstuff.h
echo '#endif' >> /mingw/include/mingwstuff.h


# print something, do it, and whine if it broke
check() {
  echo $*
  $*
  if [ $? -gt 0 ]
  then
    echo "$* failed in `pwd`"
    exit 1
  fi
}

# find the tarball, unpack it and cd into the dir
prebuild() {
  cd "$basedir"
  fname=`find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname $1\* | sed 's,^./,,' | grep -e tar.bz2 -e tar.gz -e tbz2 -e tgz`
  if [ ! -f "$fname" ]
  then
    echo "Couldn't find $1 sources"
    exit 1
  fi
  libname="`echo $fname | sed -e 's,[.]tar.bz2$,,' -e 's,[.]tar.gz$,,' -e 's,[.]tgz$,,' -e 's,[.]tbz2$,,'`"
  if [ -n "`echo $fname | grep -e 'bz2$'`" ]
  then
    tarflags="j"
  else
    tarflags="z"
  fi
  if [ -d "$libname" ]
  then
    echo "$libname exists. rm it."
    exit 1
  fi
  check tar ${tarflags}xf $fname 
  check cd $libname
}

# enable shared/static if supported
doconf() {
  if [ -n "`./configure --help | grep enable-shared`" ]
  then
    f1="--enable-shared"
  fi
  if [ -n "`./configure --help | grep enable-static`" ]
  then
    f2="--enable-static"
  fi
  check ./configure --prefix=/build $f1 $f2 $*
}

# just call the passed patchfunction if it's not --
dopatch() {
  if [ -n "$1" ]
  then
    $1
    if [ $? -gt 0 ]
    then
      echo "patches failed: $1"
      exit 1
    fi
  fi
}

# 
dobuild() {
  check make
}

#
doinstall() {
  check make install
}


# condbuild file-to-test-for tarball-prefix patchfunction configure-options
# build the specified lib unless the specified testfile exists in /build/lib
condbuild() {
  testfile="$1"
  lib="$2"
  patchfunc="$3"
  shift
  shift
  shift
  if [ ! -f "/build/lib/$testfile" ]
  then
    echo -ne "\033];$lib\007"
    prebuild $lib
    doconf $*
    [ "$patchfunc" = "--" ] || dopatch "$patchfunc"
    dobuild
    doinstall
  fi
}



#big ugly hack, the sed script in this file doesn't work with mingw sed so I hardcoded the versions
libiconvpatch() {
  check cp -v $basedir/libiconv.windows.windres-options windows/windres-options
}



# gettext wants to link with atexit.c, for some reason it thinks we're on Sun and have on_exit
gettextpatch() {
  cat gettext-tools/gnulib-lib/Makefile | sed -r 's,atexit[.][col]+,,' > gettext-tools/gnulib-lib/Makefile.tmp && mv gettext-tools/gnulib-lib/Makefile.tmp gettext-tools/gnulib-lib/Makefile
}

# vorbis should preferrably link to ogg
vorbispatch() {
  cat lib/Makefile | 
  sed 's,libvorbisfile_la_LDFLAGS =,libvorbisfile_la_LDFLAGS = -logg ,' | 
  sed 's,libvorbisenc_la_LDFLAGS =,libvorbisenc_la_LDFLAGS = -logg ,' > lib/Makefile.tmp && 
  mv lib/Makefile.tmp lib/Makefile
}


# fixing some obvious bugs in liboilcpu, such as e.g. a bare #elif (do they even build before release?)
# disabling the unguarded sig* use in liboilcpu
# disabling SSE and turning off the sse stack alignment wrapper which is broken
# disabling the jpeg test, it's broken
# most of these have been filed with liboil's bugtracker
oilpatch() {
  cat liboil/sse/sse_wrapper.h | 
  sed 's,USE_SSE_WRAPPER,USE_SSE_WRAPPER_NOT,g' > liboil/sse/sse_wrapper.h.tmp &&
  mv liboil/sse/sse_wrapper.h.tmp liboil/sse/sse_wrapper.h
  cat liboil/liboilcpu.c | 
  sed -r -e 's,(sigset_t set;),//\1,' -e 's,(sigemptyset .&set.;),//\1,' \
  	-e 's,(sigaddset .&set. SIGILL.;),//\1,' \
  	-e 's,(sigprocmask .SIG_UNBLOCK. &set. NULL.;),//\1,' \
  	-e 's,^#elif$,#else,' \
  	-e 's,return _oil_ticks_per_second,return 1,' \
  	-e '/which might cause problems".*/n;s/#if 0/#if 1/' > liboil/liboilcpu.c.tmp && mv liboil/liboilcpu.c.tmp liboil/liboilcpu.c
  cat examples/Makefile | sed 's,SUBDIRS = jpeg,SUBDIRS = ,' > examples/Makefile.tmp && mv examples/Makefile.tmp examples/Makefile
}


# sdp requires getaddrinfo/freeaddrinfo which aren't around in mingw. 
gstbasepatch() {
  cat gst-libs/gst/Makefile | grep -v 'sdp \\' > gst-libs/gst/Makefile.tmp && mv gst-libs/gst/Makefile.tmp gst-libs/gst/Makefile
}

# disable mmx, doesn't build. I'll live with the C implementation.
# define random/srandom as rand/srand, and turn off the "(s)rand is forbidden" stuff
gstffmpegpatch() {
  for f in configure configure.ac
  do
    cat gst-libs/ext/ffmpeg/$f | sed 's,HAVE_MMX=yes,HAVE_MMX=no,g' > gst-libs/ext/ffmpeg/$f.tmp && mv gst-libs/ext/ffmpeg/$f.tmp gst-libs/ext/ffmpeg/$f
  done
  cat gst-libs/ext/ffmpeg/libavutil/internal.h | sed -e 's,#define rand ,#define random rand //#define rand ,g' -e 's,#define srand ,#define srandom srand//#define srand ,g' > gst-libs/ext/ffmpeg/libavutil/internal.h.tmp && mv gst-libs/ext/ffmpeg/libavutil/internal.h.tmp gst-libs/ext/ffmpeg/libavutil/internal.h
}


condbuild libz.a zlib
condbuild libpng.a libpng
condbuild libiconv.a libiconv libiconvpatch
condbuild libxml2.a libxml2 -- --without-ftp --without-http --without-python 
condbuild libgettextpo.a gettext gettextpatch --enable-threads=win32 --enable-nls --disable-java --disable-native-java --disable-rpath --enable-relocatable  --disable-openmp --with-included-glib --with-included-gettext --with-included-libcroco --without-emacs 
condbuild libglib-2.0.la glib -- --enable-debug=no
condbuild libogg.a libogg
condbuild libvorbis.a libvorbis vorbispatch
condbuild libtheora.a libtheora -- --disable-examples
condbuild libFLAC.a flac
condbuild libspeex.a speex
condbuild libao.a libao
condbuild liboil-0.3.a liboil oilpatch
condbuild libgstreamer-0.10.a gstreamer -- --disable-rpath --disable-nls --enable-registry --enable-enumtypes --disable-net --disable-debug --disable-examples --enable-tests --enable-failing-tests --enable-largefile
condbuild libgstfft-0.10.a gst-plugins-base gstbasepatch --disable-rpath --disable-nls --disable-examples --disable-x --disable-xvideo --disable-xshm --disable-gst_v4l --disable-alsa --disable-gnome_vfs --disable-libvisual --disable-pango --disable-freetypetest --disable-cdparanoia
condbuild libgstvideo-0.10.a gst-plugins-good -- --disable-rpath --disable-nls --disable-examples --disable-gconftool --disable-oss --disable-sunaudio --disable-osx_audio --disable-osx_video --disable-gst_v4l2 --disable-x --disable-xshm --disable-xvideo --disable-aalib --disable-aalibtest --disable-cairo --disable-esd --disable-esdtest --disable-gconf --disable-gdk_pixbuf --disable-libcaca --disable-dv1394 --disable-shout2 --disable-shout2test
condbuild libgstfft-0.10.a gst-ffmpeg gstffmpegpatch

}}}

And here's the libiconv.windows.windres-options file
{{{
#!/bin/sh
escape=
if test "$1" = "--escape"; then
  escape=yes
  shift
fi

{
  echo "-DPACKAGE_VERSION_STRING=\"1.12\""
  echo "-DPACKAGE_VERSION_MAJOR=1"
  echo "-DPACKAGE_VERSION_MINOR=12"
  echo "-DPACKAGE_VERSION_SUBMINOR=0"
} |
{
  if test -n "$escape"; then
    sed -e 's,\(["\\]\),\\\1,g'
  else
    cat
  fi
}

}}}