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+These Milkshape plugins require a DLL that allows the plugin to function
+(DON'T get me started on the genius of returning C++ classes from DLLs...)
+
+Details on building this are in step II.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+I. GETTING STARTED
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Pre-requisites:
+
+    mingw with msys.
+
+    Microsoft C++ Compiler (I used the free Visual C++ 2003 Toolkit).
+
+    Windows Platform SDK.  This should only be a temporary requirement until
+    I clean up my dialog resource files.
+
+    w32dlib -- this is a simple Win32 dialog library available from:
+    	http://www.wherewilliputthisbloodything?/
+
+    Edit make.conf and set the path to your Milkshape SDK as appropriate.
+
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+II. BUILDING THE DLL WRAPPER
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+To build:
+
+    1. Open a command tool (with paths set to the MS C++ compiler) and cd
+       into the wrapper directory.
+
+    2. type 'nmake'.
+
+    3. Copy the resulting mingwms.dll to your Milkshape application directory.
+
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+III. BUILDING THE TEST DLL
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+You can skip this if your feeling over-confident...
+
+    1. Open an MSYS shell.
+
+    2. cd ./test
+
+    3. Type make.
+
+    4. Copy the resulting mstest.dll to your Milkshape application directory.
+
+    5. Run Milkshape and test the "Mingw test plugin".  It simply displays
+       the names of the meshes in a model using the medium of Message Boxes.
+
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+IV. BUILDING THE (SIMPLE) OPENGL DLL
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+You can skip this if your feeling over-confident...
+
+    1. Open an MSYS shell.
+
+    2. cd ./opengl
+
+    3. make depend
+
+    3. make
+
+    4. Copy the resulting msGLExport.dll to your Milkshape directory.
+
+    5. Run Milkshape, load a model and you can export using "Simple OpenGL".
+
+    6. Docs for this will (one day) be available in docs/msGLExport.txt
+
+
+
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+$Id: INSTALL,v 1.1 2005-04-15 00:53:56 ianc Exp $