instructions for compiling the C runtime on Windows

src/runtime/c/INSTALL

@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+General Note
+------------
+
+If you want to use the statistical ranking in the parser then you
+have to compile your grammar with the option '-probs=grammar.probs',
+where grammar.probs must contain a tab separated file with
+the probabilities for all functions in the abstract syntax.
+In order to enable the named entity recongizer for the ParseEngAbs
+grammar you also have to add the option '-literal=Symb' while compiling.
+
+
+For Linux users
+---------------
+
 You will need the package: libtool
 
 The compilation steps are:
@@ -7,15 +21,9 @@ $ ./configure
 $ make
 $ make install
 
-If you want to use the statistical ranking in the parser then you
-have to compile your grammar with the option '-probs=grammar.probs',
-where grammar.probs must contain a tab separated file with
-the probabilities for all functions in the abstract syntax.
-In order to enable the named entity recongizer for the ParseEngAbs
-grammar you also have to add the option '-literal=Symb' while compiling.
 
-Note For Mac OSX users
-----------------------
+For Mac OSX users
+-----------------
 
 The following is what I did to make it work on MacOSX 10.8:
 
@@ -28,3 +36,25 @@ $ autoreconf -i
 $ ./configure
 $ make
 $ make install
+
+
+For Windows users
+-----------------
+
+- Install MinGW: http://www.mingw.org/. From the installer you need
+  to select at least the following packages:
+     - Mingw-developer-toolkit
+     - Mingw-base
+     - Msys-base
+  After the installation, don't forget to fix the fstab file. See here:
+     http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started
+
+- From the MSYS shell (c:/MinGW/msys/1.0/msys.bat) go to the directory 
+  which contains the INSTALL file and do:
+
+  $ autoreconf -i
+  $ ./configure
+  $ make
+  $ make install
+
+  The compiled binaries should be now in c:/MinGW/msys/1.0/local/bin.