I am trying to build kicad from source in Windows 10 OS using mingw as mentioned here.
boost1.54 doesn’t work, so i got 1.72 , that didn’t work either.
i have got the patch required for building boost in windows using mingw as advised in above link.
how do i use the patch and how to exactly build the boost package? 
I am new to mingw and all so please help. (boost documentation didn’t help much)
You don’t need to build your own boost lib, use msys provided package.
Easy way to get windows build going is to use kicad-winbuilder
If you want to go the hard way and set up your msys environment yourself then provide a bit more information than
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will this work for older version of kicad after making appropriate changes?
I am building 4.0.7(not voluntarily) from scratch as much as I want to use v5.
No idea, 4.0.7 is so old it may not build with newer libraries so you may have to downgrade some packages. Try and see what breaks.
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The KiCad-Winbuilder.cmake file fails at this line ::>> pacman --noconfirm -S base-devel as it is unable to fetch all the dependencies : specifically python 3.7.4 and gdb-8.2
If i know which packages required, I can get these and other packages manually, I can save some time.
Do you happen to know which ones are absolutely required?
If you have some timeouts it may be intermittent server issues, just try again.
Also try installing just those packages: pacman -S python3 gdb
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