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diff --git a/BuildCVS.txt b/BuildCVS.txt
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+++ b/BuildCVS.txt
@@ -5,8 +5,39 @@
 I) Windows using plain makefiles
 ----------------------------------------
 
-No idea, never did it.
-
+a) Using the GNU MinGW32 or GNU CygWin32 compilers
+
+You'll need the compiler itself which is available from
+
+  http://www.cygwin.com
+
+When using MingW32 you'll need GNU make which is part of
+part of the CygWin32 toolchain and is also available as
+a stand alone port without the infamous Cygwin.dll from
+
+  http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~janjaap/mingw32
+
+-> Set your path so that it includes the directory
+   where your compiler and tools reside
+-> Assume that you installed the wxWindows sources
+   into c:\wxWin
+-> Copy c:\wxWin\include\wx\msw\setup0.h 
+   to   c:\wxWin\include\wx\msw\setup.h
+-> Edit c:\wxWin\include\wx\msw\setup.h so that
+   most features are enabled (i.e. defined to 1) with
+   #define wxUSE_SOCKETS       1
+   #define wxUSE_HTML          1
+   #define wxUSE_THREADS       1
+   #define wxUSE_FS_INET       1
+   #define wxUSE_FS_ZIP        1
+   #define wxUSE_BUSYINFO      1
+   #define wxUSE_DYNLIB_CLASS  1
+   #define wxUSE_ZIPSTREAM     1
+
+   and disbale iostreams with
+   #define wxUSE_STD_IOSTREAM   0
+-> type: cd c:\wxWin\src\msw
+-> type: make -f makefile.g95
 
 II) Unix using plain makefiles.
 ----------------------------------------
@@ -25,10 +56,14 @@ Edit ~/wxWindows/src/make.env as you wish.
 III) Windows using configure
 ----------------------------------------
 
-No idea.., but take a look at Unix->Windows cross compiling. With minor
+Take a look at Unix->Windows cross compiling. With minor
 modifications, this should work in Windows if you've got the cygnus
 utilities (bash, GNU make, etc) and either mingw32 or cygwin32 installed. 
-See http://www.cygnus.com for these programs.
+See http://www.cygnus.com for these programs, or go straight to their
+ftp server at ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/. 
+
+Of course, you can also build the library using plain makefiles (see 
+section I).
 
 IV) Unix using configure
 ----------------------------------------
@@ -94,25 +129,24 @@ sure that your configure setup is basically sound.)
 
 To cross compile the windows library, do
 -> cd win32
+Now run configure. There are two ways to do this
+-> ../configure --host=i586-mingw32 --build=i586-linux --with-mingw \
+   --enable-dnd=no
+where --build= should read whatever platform you're building on. Configure
+will notice that build and host platforms differ, and automatically prepend
+i586-mingw32- to gcc, ar, ld, etc (make sure they're in the PATH!). 
+The other way to run configure is by specifying the names of the binaries 
+yourself:
 -> CC=i586-mingw32-gcc CXX=i586-mingw32-g++ RANLIB=i586-mingw32-ranlib \
    DLLTOOL=i586-mingw32-dlltool LD=i586-mingw32-ld NM=i586-mingw32-nm \
    ../configure --host=i586-mingw32 --with-mingw --enable-dnd=no
 
-(assuming you're using mingw32)
-
-The important thing to notice here is that we suply configure with the names
-of all the non-default binutils (make sure they're in the PATH!), and that 
-we tell configure to build for the host platform i586-mingw32. 
+(all assuming you're using mingw32)
 Drag'n'drop is disabled because mingw32 lacks (AFAIK) OLE headers.
 
 Configure will conclude that shared libraries are out of the question and
 opt for a static one. I haven't looked into DLL creation yet.
 
-When configure is finished, examine setup.h in the win32 directory. Search for
-wxUSE_DYNLIB_CLASS, it will be defined twice. Remove the second define (0).
-If your cross-compiler is egcs-based, you might want to add #define __EGCS__
-in setup.h (only used by common/timercmn.cpp).
-
 Type 
 -> make -C src
 and wait, wait, wait. Don't leave the room, because the minute you do there
@@ -136,9 +170,8 @@ want to rename the cross-compiled one to i586-mingw32-wx-config, or something.
 Cross-compiling TODO:
 ---------------------
 - resource compiling must be done manually for now (should/can we link the 
-default wx resources into libwx_msw.a?)
+default wx resources into libwx_msw.a?) [ No we can't; the linker won't
+link it in... you have to supply an object file ]
 - dynamic libraries
 - static executables are HUGE -- there must be room for improvement.
-- wxUSE_DYNLIB_CLASS double def is probably a bug in configure.in
-- figure out a clean way to determine we're building with configure
-- possibly some problems with parser.y and lexer.c and the like.
+