Installation on Woe32 (WinNT/2000/XP/Vista/7, Win95/98/ME):

There are three ways to create binaries of this package for Woe32:

1) Native binaries, built using the mingw tool chain.

   I recommend to use the cygwin environment as the development environment
   and mingw only as the target (runtime, deployment) environment.
   For this, you need to install
     - cygwin,
     - the mingw runtime package, also from the cygwin site.

   Building for mingw is achieved through the following preparation
   and configure commands:

      PATH=/usr/local/mingw/bin:$PATH
      export PATH
      ./configure --host=i586-pc-mingw32 --prefix=/usr/local/mingw \
        CC="gcc-3 -mno-cygwin" \
        CXX="g++-3 -mno-cygwin"

2) Native binaries, built using the MS Visual C/C++ tool chain.

   - Requires MS Visual C/C++ 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0 or 7.0.

     Note that binaries created with MSVC 7.0 should not be distributed: They
     depend on a closed-source library 'msvcr70.dll' which is not normally part
     of a Woe32 installation. You cannot distribute 'msvcr70.dll' with the
     binaries - this would be a violation of the GPL and of the Microsoft EULA.
     You can distribute the binaries without including 'msvcr70.dll', but this
     will cause problems for users that don't have this library on their system.
     Therefore it is not recommended. This problem does not occur with MSVC 6.0
     and earlier.

   - Cannot build in a separate directory.

   - Build instructions:

      Make sure that the MSVC4.0 or MSVC5.0 or MSVC6.0 or MSVC7.0 utilities
      ("cl" etc.) are found in PATH. In a typical MSVC6.0 installation, this
      can be achieved by running
        C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\bin\vcvars32.bat
      In a typical MSVC7.0 installation, it can be achieved by running
        C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat
        nmake -f Makefile.msvc

   - Installation:

      Either:

        Copy gperf.exe to your program repository.

      Or:

        nmake -f Makefile.msvc install prefix=InstallBaseDirectory

3) Binaries for the Cygwin environment. For these, please see the normal 
   INSTALL file.