Add recommendation that fio be run in a native console on Windows.

[fio.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
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@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ tool (http://www.opencsw.org/get-it/pkgutil/) and then install fio via
 
 Windows:
 Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> has fio packages for Windows at
-http://www.bluestop.org/fio .
+http://www.bluestop.org/fio/ .
 
 
 Mailing list
@@ -125,6 +125,14 @@ How to compile FIO on 64-bit Windows:
  5. Run 'make clean'.
  6. Run 'make'.
 
+To build fio on 32-bit Windows, download x86/pthreadGC2.dll instead and do
+'./configure --build-32bit-win=yes' before 'make'.
+
+It's recommended that once built or installed, fio be run in a Command Prompt
+or other 'native' console such as console2, since there are known to be display
+and signal issues when running it under a Cygwin shell
+(see http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=56 for details).
+
 
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