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+Copyright (c) 2009-2013 Bitcoin Developers
+
+Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license, see the accompanying
+file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the [OpenSSL Toolkit](http://www.openssl.org/). This product includes
+cryptographic software written by Eric Young ([eay@cryptsoft.com](mailto:eay@cryptsoft.com)), and UPnP software written by Thomas Bernard.
+
+
+See readme-qt.rst for instructions on building Bitcoin-Qt, the
+graphical user interface.
+
+WINDOWS BUILD NOTES
+===================
+
+Compilers Supported
+-------------------
+TODO: What works?
+Note: releases are cross-compiled using mingw running on Linux.
+
+
+Dependencies
+------------
+Libraries you need to download separately and build:
+
+                default path               download
+OpenSSL         \openssl-1.0.1c-mgw        http://www.openssl.org/source/
+Berkeley DB     \db-4.8.30.NC-mgw          http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/index.html
+Boost           \boost-1.50.0-mgw          http://www.boost.org/users/download/
+miniupnpc       \miniupnpc-1.6-mgw         http://miniupnp.tuxfamily.org/files/
+
+Their licenses:
+
+	OpenSSL        Old BSD license with the problematic advertising requirement
+	Berkeley DB    New BSD license with additional requirement that linked software must be free open source
+	Boost          MIT-like license
+	miniupnpc      New (3-clause) BSD license
+
+Versions used in this release:
+
+	OpenSSL      1.0.1c
+	Berkeley DB  4.8.30.NC
+	Boost        1.50.0
+	miniupnpc    1.6
+
+
+OpenSSL
+-------
+MSYS shell:
+
+un-tar sources with MSYS 'tar xfz' to avoid issue with symlinks (OpenSSL ticket 2377)
+change 'MAKE' env. variable from 'C:\MinGW32\bin\mingw32-make.exe' to '/c/MinGW32/bin/mingw32-make.exe'
+
+	cd /c/openssl-1.0.1c-mgw
+	./config
+	make
+
+Berkeley DB
+-----------
+MSYS shell:
+
+	cd /c/db-4.8.30.NC-mgw/build_unix
+	sh ../dist/configure --enable-mingw --enable-cxx
+	make
+
+Boost
+-----
+DOS prompt:
+
+	downloaded boost jam 3.1.18
+	cd \boost-1.50.0-mgw
+	bjam toolset=gcc --build-type=complete stage
+
+MiniUPnPc
+---------
+UPnP support is optional, make with `USE_UPNP=` to disable it.
+
+MSYS shell:
+
+	cd /c/miniupnpc-1.6-mgw
+	make -f Makefile.mingw
+	mkdir miniupnpc
+	cp *.h miniupnpc/
+
+Bitcoin
+-------
+DOS prompt:
+
+	cd \bitcoin\src
+	mingw32-make -f makefile.mingw
+	strip bitcoind.exe