--- a/README.build	Mon Jun 08 19:02:33 2015 +0100
+++ b/README.build	Fri Oct 02 10:31:20 2015 +0100
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 2) Cross-Compiling under Linux, for Windows
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 $ ./configure  --host=i586-pc-mingw32
+(or, to use static linking, which does not require installing any mingw dll's on windows)
+$ ./configure  --host=i586-pc-mingw32 LDFLAGS="-static"
 $ make