Well, [so far] we have a collection of cross-compiling tools running only on Linux .. The best way for you would be to download
VMWare Image already prepared for DR development. Then the very first step is done - no Linux installation is required. You would need downloading latest SDK and cross-compile suite (gcc etc) but that's another story which is not that difficult.
I'm not sure whether changing dialog_delay from 1sec to 10sec is the solution. I suspect that this is a period where *no* process indication is done = no green light, no dialog, nothing. But the idea of the thread is somewhat different.