I should mention one thing: You may notice in my checklist that I am using a different "exiftool" file for the Windows executable. There are 2 differences between this and the normal version: 1) The help text is displayed using a different technique, and 2) the windows version allows arguments to be embedded in the file name. So these will change if you build a .exe with the regular "exiftool". If you want to use the Windows version of the "exiftool" script, you should be able to find it in your temporary directory after running the Windows executable.

- Phil