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@@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ Ubuntu:
 
 #### Windows
 
-Compiling on windows is supported with recent versions of Microsoft Visual Studio (Standard or Express) and using GCC via the MinGW environment.  Things may also work under Cygwin, but that is not the preferred windows environment.  Not all features will be available as well as with either Visual Studio or MinGW.
+Compiling on windows is supported with recent versions of Microsoft Visual Studio (Standard or Express) and using GCC via the MinGW32 environment.  Things may also work under Cygwin, but that is not the preferred windows environment.  Not all features will be available as well as with either Visual Studio or MinGW32.
 
 ##### Required related files
 The file https://github.com/simh/simh/blob/master/Visual%20Studio%20Projects/0ReadMe_Projects.txt
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ The file https://github.com/simh/simh/blob/master/Visual%20Studio%20Projects/0Re
 
 ##### MinGW32
 
-The file https://github.com/simh/simh/blob/master/Visual%20Studio%20Projects/0ReadMe_Projects.txt describes the required steps to use the setup your environment to build using MinGW32.
+Building with MinGW32 requires the same directory organization and the dependent package support described for Visual Studio in the file https://github.com/simh/simh/blob/master/Visual%20Studio%20Projects/0ReadMe_Projects.txt.  Building with MinGW64 is not supported.
 
 #### VMS
 
diff --git a/Visual Studio Projects/0ReadMe_Projects.txt b/Visual Studio Projects/0ReadMe_Projects.txt
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@@ -28,8 +28,12 @@ For Example, the directory structure should look like:
 
 If you have a command line version of git installed in your environment
 then the windows-build repository will be downloaded and updated 
-automatically.  If not, then the contents of the windows-build directory 
-can be downloaded from:
+automatically.  Git for windows can be downloaded from:
+
+    https://git-scm.com/download/win
+    
+If git isn't available, then the contents of the windows-build 
+directory can be downloaded from:
 
     https://github.com/simh/windows-build/archive/windows-build.zip