[AUCTeX] Error during "make" of AUCTeX - "I can't find the default format file!"

[Daniel Zimmer]

Hello,

Unfortunately I get an error during "make" of the AUCTeX installation 
under Windows in MSYS resulting that preview-latex doesn't work at all.

Here are the error messages:

Descending into /c/tmp/auctex-11.82/preview
make[1]: Entering directory `/c/tmp/auctex-11.82/preview'
(cd latex ; make all)
make[2]: Entering directory `/c/tmp/auctex-11.82/preview/latex'
/c/Programme/MiKTeX/texmf/miktex/bin/tex '\nonstopmode \input bootstrap.ins'
This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (MiKTeX 2.4)
initexmf: The input file for "plain.tex" could be found.
I can't find the default format file!
cannot make plain.fmt
make[2]: *** [preview-mk.ins] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/c/tmp/auctex-11.82/preview/latex'
make[1]: *** [texmf] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/tmp/auctex-11.82/preview'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I hope there is anybody who knows what to do.

Thanks a lot.

Daniel