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diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32 index cb3f3b623..ff962b72a 100644 --- a/README.win32 +++ b/README.win32 @@ -1,15 +1,20 @@ Building Cairo on Windows ========================= -There are two primary ways to build Cairo on Windows. You can use a -UN*X-like setup, such as Cygwin, with the conventional configure -script shipped with Cairo releases. In this configuration, you will -build with GCC and end up with (for instance) a Cygwin-dependent -library. In theory, this technique is no different than the ordinary -build process for the Cairo library. +There are two primary ways to build Cairo on Windows. You can use a +UNIX emulation based setup, such as Cygwin or MSYS, with the +conventional configure script shipped with Cairo releases. In this +configuration, you will build with GCC and (implicitly) libtool. In +the Cygwin case you end up with a DLL that depends on Cygwin and +should be used only from Cygwin applications. In the MSYS case you end +up with a "normal" Win32 DLL that can be used either from GCC- or +Microsoft Visual C++-compiled code. In theory, this technique is no +different than the ordinary build process for the Cairo library. In +practise there are lots of small details that can go wrong. The second way is to use a GNU-compatible make, but build using Microsoft's Visual C++ compiler to produce native libraries. This is -the setup this README is written for. +the setup this README.win32 is written for. Also the DLL produced this +way is usable either from GCC- or MSVC-compiled code. Tools required ============== |