-Building LyX the first time can appear to be a daunting task, but much of
-that is knowing which packages to download in the first place.
-
-The instructions below should guide you through the installation of
-the MinGW/MinSYS build environment, together with details on how to
-grab and build the Qt toolkit and how to grab Aspell and LyX.
-
-Once you've done all that, you should go read the README in
-development/Win32/packaging/ The two scripts in the same directory,
-build_lyxwin.sh and package_lyxwin.sh should automate the entire
-build process. If not and you really can't figure out what to do next,
-then please, please drop a mail to lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org.
+LyX can be built with either MinGW/MSYS or Microsoft Visual Studio. The
+instructions below describe the detailed steps needed to set up a MinGW/MSYS
+environment ready to compile LyX. Several of these steps (installation of the
+third-party libraries) need to be performed for a MSVS build also but, of
+course, the details of how to do so are different. Nonetheless, we hope that
+the description below provides the MSVS developer with enough info to get
+started.
+
+Building LyX the first time can appear to be a daunting task but much of that
+is knowing which packages to download in the first place. Once you've set up
+the build environment, actually building LyX should be straightforward.
+
+The instructions below should guide you through the installation of the
+MinGW/MSYS build environment, together with details on how to grab and build
+gettext, libiconv, qtwin, and aspell.
+
+Once you've done all that, you should go read the README in
+development/Win32/packaging/ (MSVS users just open up development/Win32/lyx.sln
+and click Build) The two scripts in the same directory, build_lyxwin.sh and
+package_lyxwin.sh should automate the entire build process. If not and you
+really can't figure out what to do next, then please, please drop a mail to
+lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org.