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commit 528178fa82563a052c4e03d463ab9b88b41c7afa
Author: Paul Fertser <fercer...@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Sep 19 19:21:35 2013 +0400

    README.Windows: only MinGW-w64 is suitable for building, not regular MinGW
    
    The regular MinGW will never work because it doesn't try to provide
    C99 compatibility (and MS doesn't either).
    
    Change-Id: I27c1b9e1496a8c32032fab08a29cbe1124316edd
    Reported-by: Tomáš Voda <voda.to...@seznam.cz>
    Signed-off-by: Paul Fertser <fercer...@gmail.com>

diff --git a/README.Windows b/README.Windows
index 38f5ef1..b7238b2 100644
--- a/README.Windows
+++ b/README.Windows
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 Building OpenOCD for Windows
 ----------------------------
 
-You can build OpenOCD for Windows natively with either MinGW/MSYS or
-Cygwin. Alternatively, one can cross-compile it using MinGW on a *nix
-host. See README for the generic instructions.
+You can build OpenOCD for Windows natively with either MinGW-w64/MSYS
+or Cygwin (plain MinGW wouldn't work as it doesn't provide enough C99
+compatibility). Alternatively, one can cross-compile it using
+MinGW-w64 on a *nix host. See README for the generic instructions.
 
-Native MinGW/MSYS compilation
+Native MinGW-w64/MSYS compilation
 -----------------------------
 
 As MSYS doesn't come with pkg-config pre-installed, you need to add it
@@ -14,7 +15,7 @@ from:
 
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/pkgconfiglite/
 
-Then simply unzip the archive to the root directory of your MinGW
+Then simply unzip the archive to the root directory of your MinGW-w64
 installation.
 
 USB adapters

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