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+1. Installing NASM from source (Unix, MacOS X; Windows - Cygwin;
+   Windows - MinGW; DOS - DJGPP)
+2. Installing NASM from source (Windows - MS Visual C++)
+3. Installing NASM from source (DOS, Windows, OS/2 - OpenWatcom)
+
+
+1. Installing NASM from source (Unix, MacOS X; Windows - Cygwin;
+   Windows - MinGW; DOS - DJGPP)
+================================================================
+
+Installing NASM is pretty straightforward on Unix or Unix-like systems
+with a C compiler, Make, and standard shell tools installed, including
+MinGW for Windows (with MSYS installed) and DJGPP for DOS with the
+appropriate tools.  Perl is not required for compiling unmodified
+sources from a tarball, but is required to build from git or for most
+source modifications.
+
+If you checked out source from git you will need to run autoconf to
+generate configure, otherwise you don't have to.
+
+$ sh autogen.sh
+
+Then run configure to detect your platform settings and generate makefiles.
+
+$ sh configure
+
+You can get information about available configuration options by
+running `sh configure --help`.
+
+If configure fails, please file a bug report with detailed platform
+information at:
+
+    http://www.sf.net/projects/nasm/
+
+If everything went okay, type
+
+$ make
+
+to build NASM, ndisasm and rdoff tools, or
+
+$ make everything
+
+to build the former plus the docs.
+
+You can decrease the size of produces executables by stripping off
+unnecessary information, to achieve this run
+
+$ make strip
+
+If you install to a system-wide location you might need to become
+root:
+
+$ su <enter root password>
+
+then
+
+$ make install
+
+optionally followed by 
+
+$ make install_rdf
+
+Or you can 
+
+$ make install_everything
+
+to install everything =)
+
+
+Thats it, enjoy!
+
+
+2. Installing NASM from source (Windows - MS Visual C++)
+========================================================
+
+The recommended compiler for NASM on Windows is MinGW
+(http://www.mingw.org/), but it is also possible to compile with
+Microsoft Visual C++ (tested with Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition.)
+
+To do so, start the "Visual C++ Command Shell", go to the directory
+where the NASM source code was extracted, and run:
+
+> nmake /f Mkfiles/msvc.mak
+
+We recommend MinGW over Visual C++ 2005 as we have found it to be more
+up to date with regards to C99 compliance, and we are increasingly
+using C99 features in NASM.
+
+
+3. Installing NASM from source (DOS, Windows, OS/2 - OpenWatcom)
+================================================================
+
+NASM has been reported to build correctly with OpenWatcom 1.7 on the
+Windows and OS/2 platforms.  In addition, it *should* work under DOS
+with the DOS4GW DOS extender, although the NASM developers recommend
+using DJGPP with the CWSDPMI DOS extender instead.
+
+A WMAKE make file is provided:
+
+> wmake -f Mkfiles\openwcom.mak <platform>
+
+... where <platform> is "dos", "win32" or "os2".