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kleopatra999 · Jan 30, 2015 · d9f519e · d9f519e
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@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Building ctags from the command line
 Microsoft Visual Studio
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-Most users of Visual Studio will use the IDE and not the command line to compile a project. But by default a shortcut to the command prompt that sets the proper path is installed in the Start Menu. When this command prompt is used ``nmake -f mk_mvc.mak`` will compile ctags.
+Most users of Visual Studio will use the IDE and not the command line to compile a project. But by default a shortcut to the command prompt that sets the proper path is installed in the Start Menu. When this command prompt is used ``nmake -f mk_mvc.mak`` will compile ctags. You can also go into the ``win32`` subdirectory and run ``msbuild ctags_vs2013.sln`` for the default build. Use ``msbuild ctags_vs2013.sln /p:Configuration=Release`` to specifically build a release build. MSBuild is what the IDE uses internally and therefore will product the same files as the IDE.
 
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@@ -60,8 +60,6 @@ Note that ctags builds with MinGW and TDM-GCC but does not build with MinGW-w64
 
 Any Windows includes a command prompt. Not the most advanced, but it is enough to do the build tasks. Make sure the path is set properly and ``make -f mk_mingw.mak`` should so the trick.
 
-I have a patch for mk_mingw.mak to generate separate object files.
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 **MSYS**
 
 From their site: MSYS is a collection of GNU utilities such as bash, make, gawk and grep to allow building of applications and programs which depend on traditionally UNIX tools to be present. It is intended to supplement MinGW and the deficiencies of the cmd shell.
@@ -84,7 +82,7 @@ You can also build a native Windows version when using ``./configure --host=i686
 
 **Cross-compile from GNU/Linux**
 
-I think all major distros have both MinGW and MinGW-w64 packages. I know Ubuntu has them. Compiling works most likely the same way as with MSYS and Cygwin. A Windows application can be cross-compiled, with the same limitation when autoconf is used. I haven't tested this yet. When cross-compiling works with GNU/Linux, it could also be used with Travis-CI.
+All major distros have both MinGW and MinGW-w64 packages. Compiling works the same way as with MSYS and Cygwin. A Windows application can be cross-compiled, with the same limitation when autoconf is used. Just like with Cygwin, with ``make -f mk_mingw.mak CC=i686-w64-mingw32-gcc`` a native Windows application can be compiled.
 
 
 Building ctags with IDEs