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 <h2>Installation</h2>
+
+<p>You should read the <a href="#configure">Autoconf based configuration</a>
+if you use ECL on a unix-like platform, such as
+<ul>
+<li>Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris.
+<li>OSX
+<li>Cygwin or Mingw32 on Windows.
+</ul>
+
+<p>If you want to compile ECL using Microsoft C++ you should read <a
+href="#msvc">the appropiate section</a>.
+
+<p>If you want to cross-compile ECL, there is also <a href="#cross">a
+chapter</a> on how to pre-configure, write down a configuration file
+and finish the compilation.
+
+<h3><a name="msvc">Microsoft C++</a></h3>
+<ul>
+<li>Change to the <tt>msvc</tt> directory.
+
+<li>Run <tt>nmake</tt> to build ECL.
+
+<li>Run <tt>nmake flatinstall prefix=d:\Software\ECL</tt> where the
+<tt>prefix</tt> is the directory where you want to install ECL.
+
+<li>Optionally, if you want to build a self-installing executable, you can install NSIS
+and run <tt>nmake windows-nsi</tt>.
+</ul>
+
+
+<h3><a name="configure">Autoconf based configuration</a></h3>
+
 <ul>
 <li>Unpack the tar file
 <pre>
@@ -36,3 +68,8 @@ etc.  For instance, under linux the build directory is "linux" and we would do
 	make install
 </pre>
 </ul>
+
+
+<h3><a name="cross">Cross compiling ECL</a></h3>
+
+[To be written]