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+Please do not build this package in a path that contains spaces to avoid
+possible problems during the build or during the usage of the library.
+
+Please refer to the following GNOME Live! page for more detailed
+instructions on building ATK and its dependencies with Visual C++:
+
+https://live.gnome.org/GTK%2B/Win32/MSVCCompilationOfGTKStack
+
+This VS9 solution and the projects it includes are intented to be used
+in a ATK source tree unpacked from a tarball. In a git checkout you
+first need to use some Unix-like environment or manual work to expand
+the .in files needed, mainly config.h.win32.in into config.h.win32.
+You will also need to expand atk.vcprojin here into
+atk.vcproj.
+
+The dependencies for this package are gettext-runtime (libintl), GLib*
+and ZLib.
+
+a) look for all of the dependencies (except GLib*) under
+
+ http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/dependencies/ (32-bit) -OR-
+ http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win64/dependencies/ (64-bit)
+
+ Please use the latest versions of these libraries that are available there,
+ these are packaged by Tor Lillqvist, which are built with MinGW/GCC.
+ Please see b) below regarding the build of GLib*
+
+-OR-
+
+b) Build them yourself with VS9 (but you may most probably wish to get
+ gettext-runtime from the URL(s) mentioned in a)). Use the latest
+ stable versions for them (you may need to get the latest unstable version of
+ GLib if you are using an unstable version of ATK):
+
+ GLib*: Grab the latest sources from http://www.gtk.org under "Download"
+ (stable only-please make a search for the latest unstable versions)
+ ZLib: http://www.zlib.net
+
+ The above 2 packages all have supported mechanisms (Makefiles and/or Project
+ Files) for building under VS9 (upgrade the Project Files from earlier VS
+ versions will do for these, when applicable)
+
+* This GLib refers to a build that is built by VS9
+
+Set up the source tree as follows under some arbitrary top
+folder <root>:
+
+<root>\atk\<this-atk-source-tree>
+<root>\vs9\<PlatformName>
+
+*this* file you are now reading is thus located at
+<root>\atk\<this-atk-source-tree>\build\win32\vs9\README.
+
+<PlatformName> is either Win32 or x64, as in VS9 project files.
+
+You should unpack the <dependent-package>-dev and <dependent-packge> (runtime)
+into <root>\vs9\<PlatformName>, if you download any of the packages from
+
+http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/dependencies/ (32-bit) -OR-
+http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win64/dependencies/ (64-bit)
+
+so that for instance libintl.h end up at
+<root>\vs9\<PlatformName>\include\libintl.h.
+
+If you build any of the dependencies yourselves, copy the:
+-DLLs and EXEs into <root>\vs9\<PlatformName>\bin
+-headers into <root>\vs9\<PlatformName>\include\
+-LIBs into <root>\vs9\<PlatformName>\lib
+
+If you have not built GLib with VS9 and placed the LIBs and headers in a
+place where VS9 can find them automatically, you should also uncompress
+your GLib sources in <root>\ and build it from there, following the
+instructions in <root>\glib<-version>\build\win32\vs9, so that the required
+headers, EXEs, DLLs and LIBs will end up in
+<root>\vs9\<PlatformName>\include\glib-2.0 (headers)
+<root>\vs9\<PlatformName>\lib (LIBs, also glib-2.0/include/glibocnfig.h)
+<root>\vs9\<PlatformName>\bin (EXEs/DLLs)
+respectively.
+
+After the build of ATK, the "install" project will copy build results
+and headers into their appropriate location under <root>\vs9\<PlatformName>.
+For instance, built DLLs go into <root>\vs9\<PlatformName>\bin, built LIBs into
+<root>\vs9\<PlatformName>\lib and atk headers into
+<root>\vs9\<PlatformName>\include\atk-1.0. This is then from where
+project files higher in the stack are supposed to look for them, not
+from a specific ATK source tree.
+
+--Chun-wei Fan <fanc999@yahoo.com.tw>
+--(adapted from the GLib VS9 README.txt file originally written by Tor Lillqvist)