big batch of changes

[chaz/yoink] / README

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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ II.  Developers
   b)   Porting
 III. Packagers
   a)   The build system
-  b)   Help requested
+  b)   Targeting Win32
 
 
 I. Users
@@ -95,10 +95,17 @@ autoconf and automake.  It should be fairly sane.  If you find any
 problems, especially any bugs which complicate packaging on certain
 systems, please send back patches.
 
-b) Help requested
+b) Targeting Win32
 
-If you can create packages for your favorite platform, please send them
-back to me and/or place the package in a public repository appropriate for
-your distribution or platform.  I would especially appreciate packages in
-common formats such as deb, rpm, or OS X app bundles.
+If you have a working mingw32 toolchain with all the dependencies, you can
+build a win32 binary using a command such as this:
+
+./configure --host=mingw32 --prefix=/usr/mingw32/usr
+
+where mingw32 is the correct name of your toolchain.  You can get all the
+non-standard dependencies from the git repository at win32/win32-libs.zip.
+Just unzip the contents of that archive into your toolchain.  If everything
+goes smoothly, you should have a yoink.exe appropriate for the win32
+platform.  You can then build a complete installer using "make package" if
+you have nsis installed.