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+Building GStreamer on Windows\r
+-----------------------------\r
+\r
+Running GStreamer on Windows is currently experimental, but improving.\r
+\r
+Building on MingW/MSys\r
+----------------------\r
+Should work out of the box from the toplevel directory using the standard\r
+Unix build system provided.\r
+\r
+This build type is fairly well supported.\r
+\r
+Building with Visual Studio 6\r
+-----------------------------\r
+The directory vs6/ contains the workspaces needed to build GStreamer from\r
+Visual Studio.\r
+\r
+This build type is fairly well supported.\r
+\r
+Building with Visual Studio 7\r
+-----------------------------\r
+vs7/ contains the files needed, but they haven't been updated since the\r
+0.8 series.\r
+\r
+This build is currently unsupported.\r
+\r
+The common/ directory contains support files that can be shared between\r
+these two versions of Visual Studio.\r