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 Compiling SILC Toolkit on WIN32
 ===============================
 
-SILC Toolkit works on native WIN32 systems as well.  This README is
+SILC Toolkit works on native WIN32 systems as well.  This document is
 intended for those who needs to compile the Toolkit for native WIN32
 systems.  The Toolkit can be compiled for native WIN32 systems using
 generally any compiler.  However, the compilation environment is designed
@@ -60,3 +60,12 @@ giving the ./configure.
 After compilation there should be silc.dll and silcclient.dll files in
 the lib/ directory.  It will also generate silc.lib and silcclient.lib
 files for linking against a client application.
+
+
+Compiling SILC Toolkit with Cygwin
+==================================
+
+Compiling the Toolkit with Cygwin is equivalent to compiling with MinGW
+except that the ./configure does not take the --with-win32 option.  In this
+case it will compile using Cygwin's libraries and the binaries will require
+the Cygwin DLL.