README.md: Clarify wording relating to building with MinGW32

As reported in #1039
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Mark Pizzolato 2021-04-27 08:54:23 -07:00
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#### Windows #### 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 ##### Required related files
The file https://github.com/simh/simh/blob/master/Visual%20Studio%20Projects/0ReadMe_Projects.txt The file https://github.com/simh/simh/blob/master/Visual%20Studio%20Projects/0ReadMe_Projects.txt
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##### MinGW32 ##### 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 #### VMS

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If you have a command line version of git installed in your environment If you have a command line version of git installed in your environment
then the windows-build repository will be downloaded and updated then the windows-build repository will be downloaded and updated
automatically. If not, then the contents of the windows-build directory automatically. Git for windows can be downloaded from:
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 https://github.com/simh/windows-build/archive/windows-build.zip