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@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ is much faster. It is also much easier to get all the dependencies in a modern
 distribution. Therefore, this howto deals with cross-compiling tinc with MinGW
 under Linux on a Debian distribution.
 
+The result is a 32-bit executable. If you want to create a 64-bit executable,
+have a look at the [[64-bit cross-compilation example|examples/cross-compiling-64-bit-windows-binary]].
+
 ### Overview
 
 The idea is simple:
@@ -24,6 +27,13 @@ There are only a few packages that need to be installed as root to get started:
 >     sudo apt-get install mingw32 wine git-core
 >     sudo apt-get build-dep tinc
 
+Other Linux distributions may also have MinGW packages, use their respective
+package management tools to install them.  Debian installs the cross-compiler
+in `/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/`. Other distributions might install it in another
+directory however, for example `/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/`. Check in which directory
+it is installed, and replace all occurences of `i586-mingw32msvc` in this
+example with the correct name from your distribution.
+
 ### Setting up the build directory and getting the sources
 
 We will create a directory called `mingw/` in the home directory.  We use
@@ -57,7 +67,8 @@ If `$HOME/bin` is not already part of your `$PATH`, you need to add it:
 >     export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
 
 We use this script to call `./configure` and `make` with the right environment
-variables.  You can also run the export commands from the `mingw` script by
+variables, but only when the `./configure` script doesn't support cross-compilation itself.
+You can also run the export commands from the `mingw` script by
 hand instead of calling the mingw script for every `./configure` or `make`
 command, or execute `$HOME/bin/mingw $SHELL` to get a shell with these
 environment variables set, but in this howto we will call it explicitly every
@@ -67,10 +78,10 @@ time it is needed.
 
 Cross-compiling LZO is easy:
 
->     cd $HOME/lzo2-2.03
->     mingw ./configure --host=mingw32
->     mingw make
->     DESTDIR=$HOME/mingw mingw make install
+>     cd $HOME/mingw/lzo2-2.03
+>     ./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc
+>     make
+>     DESTDIR=$HOME/mingw make install
 
 ### Compiling Zlib
 
@@ -106,8 +117,8 @@ this is not necessary.
 
 >     cd $HOME/mingw/tinc
 >     autoreconf -fsi
->     mingw ./configure --host=mingw32 --with-openssl=$HOME/mingw/usr/local
->     mingw make
+>     ./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc --with-openssl=$HOME/mingw/usr/local
+>     make
 
 ### Testing tinc