diff nt/INSTALL @ 90780:ec58e5c426ef

Merge from emacs--devo--0 Patches applied: * emacs--devo--0 (patch 653-661) - Update from CVS - Merge from gnus--rel--5.10 * gnus--rel--5.10 (patch 203-206) - Merge from emacs--devo--0 - Update from CVS Revision: [e-mail]/emacs--unicode--0--patch-180

--- a/nt/INSTALL	Fri Mar 02 01:43:44 2007 +0000
+++ b/nt/INSTALL	Sun Mar 04 06:19:40 2007 +0000
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@
        command.com /c configure.bat
 
   3. Run the Make utility suitable for your environment.  If you build
-     with the Microsoft's Visual C compiler:
+     with the Microsoft's Visual C compiler (but see notes about using
+     VC++ 8.0 and later below):
 
        nmake
 
@@ -99,15 +100,17 @@
 
 * Supported development environments
 
-  To compile Emacs, you will need either Microsoft Visual C++ 2.0 or
-  later and nmake, or a Windows port of GCC 2.95 or later with MinGW
-  and W32 API support and a port of GNU Make.  You can use the Cygwin
-  ports of GCC, but Emacs requires the MinGW headers and libraries to
-  build (latest versions of the Cygwin toolkit, at least since v1.3.3,
-  include the MinGW headers and libraries as an integral part).
+  To compile Emacs, you will need either Microsoft Visual C++ 2.0, or
+  later up to 7.0, and nmake, or a Windows port of GCC 2.95 or later
+  with MinGW and W32 API support and a port of GNU Make.  You can use
+  the Cygwin ports of GCC, but Emacs requires the MinGW headers and
+  libraries to build (latest versions of the Cygwin toolkit, at least
+  since v1.3.3, include the MinGW headers and libraries as an integral
+  part).
 
-  Note that building Emacs with Visual Studio 2005 is not supported at
-  this time.
+  Note that building Emacs with Visual Studio 2005 (VC++ 8.0) is not
+  supported at this time, due to changes introduced by Microsoft into
+  the libraries shipped with the compiler.
 
   The rest of this file assumes you have a working development
   environment.  If you just installed  such an environment, try
@@ -191,9 +194,14 @@
 
     http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/WThirtyTwoInstallationKit
 
-  and at this URL:
+  and on these URLs:
 
     http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/w32-build-emacs.html
+    http://derekslager.com/blog/posts/2007/01/emacs-hack-3-compile-emacs-from-cvs-on-windows.ashx
+
+  The second URL above includes instructions for building with MSVC,
+  as well as with MinGW, while the first URL covers only MinGW, but
+  has more details about it.
 
 * Configuring