From 99d8a50dcfd07db0558e8bc76115ef227dda8099 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Groth <christoph.groth@cea.fr>
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 11:36:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] INSTALL: add note about compiling from source on windows

---
 INSTALL | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 377029a..45ff808 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -412,6 +412,21 @@ build.conf file. Also, when linking against mumps, one needs also to link
 against metis (in addition to the libraries needed for MacPorts).
 
 
+Windows
+=======
+
+Our efforts to compile Kwant on Windows using only free software (MinGW) were
+only moderately successful.  At the end of a very complicated process we
+obtained packages that worked, albeit unreliably.  As the only recommended way
+to compile Python extensions on Windows is using Visual C++, it may well be that
+there exists no easy solution.
+
+It is possible to compile Kwant on Windows using non-free compilers, however we
+(the authors of Kwant) have no experience with this.  The existing Windows
+binary installers of Kwant and Tinyarray were kindly prepared by Christoph
+Gohlke.
+
+
 Build configuration
 ===================
 
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