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--- a/INSTALL.W32
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@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
  INSTALLATION ON THE WIN32 PLATFORM
  ----------------------------------
 
+ [Instructions for building for Windows CE can be found in INSTALL.WCE]
+
  Heres a few comments about building OpenSSL in Windows environments.  Most
  of this is tested on Win32 but it may also work in Win 3.1 with some
  modification.
@@ -82,7 +84,8 @@
  There are various changes you can make to the Win32 compile environment. By
  default the library is not compiled with debugging symbols. If you add 'debug'
  to the mk1mf.pl lines in the do_* batch file then debugging symbols will be
- compiled in.
+ compiled in. Note that mk1mf.pl expects the platform to be the last argument
+ on the command line, so 'debug' must appear before that, as all other options.
 
  The default Win32 environment is to leave out any Windows NT specific
  features.
@@ -152,17 +155,17 @@
  GNU C (Cygwin)
  --------------
 
- Cygwin provides a bash shell and GNU tools environment running on
- NT 4.0, Windows 9x and Windows 2000. Consequently, a make of OpenSSL
- with Cygwin is closer to a GNU bash environment such as Linux rather
- than other W32 makes that are based on a single makefile approach.
- Cygwin implements Posix/Unix calls through cygwin1.dll, and is
- contrasted to Mingw32 which links dynamically to msvcrt.dll or
- crtdll.dll.
+ Cygwin provides a bash shell and GNU tools environment running
+ on NT 4.0, Windows 9x, Windows ME, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.
+ Consequently, a make of OpenSSL with Cygwin is closer to a GNU
+ bash environment such as Linux than to other W32 makes which are
+ based on a single makefile approach. Cygwin implements Posix/Unix
+ calls through cygwin1.dll, and is contrasted to Mingw32 which links
+ dynamically to msvcrt.dll or crtdll.dll.
 
  To build OpenSSL using Cygwin:
 
- * Install Cygwin (see http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin)
+ * Install Cygwin (see http://cygwin.com/)
 
  * Install Perl and ensure it is in the path (recent Cygwin perl 
    (version 5.6.1-2 of the latter has been reported to work) or
@@ -188,13 +191,9 @@
  stripping of carriage returns. To avoid this ensure that a binary
  mount is used, e.g. mount -b c:\somewhere /home.
 
- As of version 1.1.1 Cygwin is relatively unstable in its handling
- of cr/lf issues. These make procedures succeeded with versions 1.1 and
- the snapshot 20000524 (Slow!).
-
- "bc" is not provided in the Cygwin distribution.  This causes a
+ "bc" is not provided in older Cygwin distribution.  This causes a
  non-fatal error in "make test" but is otherwise harmless.  If
- desired, GNU bc can be built with Cygwin without change.
+ desired and needed, GNU bc can be built with Cygwin without change.
 
 
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