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Common Setup
============
-To be able to run qpdf's test suite, you must have cygwin installed.
+To be able to build qpdf and run its test suite, you must have either
+Cygwin or MSYS from MinGW (>= 1.0.11) installed.
+
+ qpdf's test suite, you must have cygwin installed.
This is because qpdf's test suite uses qtest, which requires cygwin
perl on Windows. (Hopefully a future version of qtest will work with
ActiveState Perl.) You must have at least perl and gnu diffutils