I tried to compile Bullet 2.72, but it stops at the ForkLiftDemo because of an undefined reference to "gluLookAt" and some other glu functions. That issue was probably resolved before, according to the change log:
It doesn't seam to be a big issue, but as I have no experience with cmake, I have to ask.2006 June 17 Frank Richter [...]
Updated files in mk/autoconf and mk/jam with copies from CS; fixes a GLU detection issue on MinGW.[...]
Regards,
Daniel