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+Instructions how to compile ORTE for Windows:
+=============================================
+
+ORTE for windows can be compiled by MinGW and Microsoft
+Visual C. The library providing pthread API is required
+in both cases.
+
+
+When ORTE is build by Microsoft Visual C the Pthreads-w32
+should be used
+
+  http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/
+
+When build by MinGW32 then current version (3.0) versions
+of MinGW-w64 integrates winpthreads directly in the standard
+development tools distribution
+
+  http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/
+
+There is inluded local copy of winpthreads library for
+the case that older  MinGW version is used.
+
+The cross-compilation of ORTE from GNU/Linux system
+---------------------------------------------------
+
+The Debian package mingw-w64-i686-dev provides GCC
+cross-compiler and libraries. The actual package
+used for the build was mingw-w64-i686-dev_3.0.0-2_all.deb.