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+************************************************
+*** Caution - this work is still in progress ***
+************************************************
+
+These are steps how to setup local envinronment to build evolution
+and its dependencies from sources.
+
+a) http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/mingw-get-setup.exe/download
+	Destination folder: C:\MinGW
+
+	Install packages:
+	- Basic setup:
+	  - mingw-developer-toolkit
+	  - msys-base
+
+	- All Packages
+	  - msys-patch
+	  - msys-perl
+	  - msys-unzip
+	  - msys-wget
+
+b) http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/files/mingw-builds-install/mingw-builds-install.exe/download
+	Version: 4.8.1
+	Architecture: x32
+	Threads: posix
+	Exception: dwarf
+	Build revision: 5
+
+	Destination folder: C:\MinGW64
+
+c) Replace MinGW version of gcc & co. with the MinGW64 version (mainly for webkitgtk)
+	- delete all but 'msys' directories in C:\MinGW\
+	- move all directories from C:\MinGW64\mingw32\ to C:MinGW\
+
+d) http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.6/python-2.7.6.msi
+	Destination folder: C:\Python27
+
+e) Add to PATH: C:\Python27;C:\MinGW\bin
+
+f) go to evolution checkout, into evolution\win32\ subfolder and execute:
+   	$ source setup-env
+   which setups build environment. This can take some addition
+   parameters, see the top of setup-env for more information.
+
+g) build evolution from sources with:
+	$ make evolution
+   or with some additional software:
+	$ make addons
+
+h) Make sure dbus-daemon is running before evolution is run, which can
+   be done with $PREFIX\deps\bin\dbus-launch.exe
+
+i) Run 'evolution'