diff --git a/doc/windows-build.txt b/doc/windows-build.txt
index 784a533b..29c880e3 100644
--- a/doc/windows-build.txt
+++ b/doc/windows-build.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
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+(See bottom of file for steps to cross-build for Win32 from Linux.)
+
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 * Introduction                                                                       *
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@@ -206,8 +208,97 @@ For you. Make sure you never remove the ADL_SDK folder from your home folder.
 --disable-libcurl       Disable building with libcurl for getwork and GBT support
 --without-curses        Compile support for curses TUI (default enabled)
 
+
+
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-#       Native WIN32 setup and build instructions (on mingw32/Windows) complete      #
+#       Cross-compiling for Windows from Linux                                       #
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+
+It is possible to cross-compile Windows binaries from Linux. The
+process is a bit different to the native steps shown above (it is also
+possible to use wine and the native steps, but this is more messing
+around, very slow, and not advisable.)
+
+** Install mingw cross compiler
+
+On Ubuntu/Debian:
+
+sudo apt-get install mingw32
+
+** create a directory to hold our cross-library dependencies
+
+We'll create a directory outside the source tree to hold non-system
+libraries we depend on. We could put these in
+/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/lib or anywhere else, instead (though keeping it
+outside /usr means we can set it up without root privileges.)
+
+IMPORTANT: If you put this directory inside your cgminer directory,
+remember 'make distclean' may delete it!
+
+mkdir -p ../cgminer-win32-deps/lib
+cd ../cgminer-win32-deps
+mkdir include
+mkdir bin
+
+NB: All following steps assume you are in the "cgminer-win32-deps" directory. Adjust as necessary.
+
+** pdcurses
+
+wget http://internode.dl.sourceforge.net/project/pdcurses/pdcurses/3.4/pdc34dllw.zip
+unzip /home/gus/Downloads/pdc34dllw.zip
+mv *.h include/
+mv pdcurses.lib lib/
+mv pdcurses.dll bin/
+
+** pthreads-w32
+
+(NB: I found pthreads-w32 2.9.1 doesn't seem to work properly, transfers time out early due to sem_timedwait exiting immediately(?))
+
+wget -O lib/libpthread.a ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/prebuilt-dll-2-8-0-release/lib/libpthreadGC2.a
+wget -O include/pthread.h ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/prebuilt-dll-2-8-0-release/include/pthread.h
+wget -O include/sched.h ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/prebuilt-dll-2-8-0-release/include/sched.h
+wget -O include/semaphore.h ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/prebuilt-dll-2-8-0-release/include/semaphore.h
+wget -O lib/libpthread.a ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/prebuilt-dll-2-8-0-release/lib/libpthreadGC2.a
+wget -O bin/pthreadGC2.dll ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/prebuilt-dll-2-8-0-release/lib/pthreadGC2.dll
+
+** libcurl
+
+wget http://curl.haxx.se/gknw.net/7.33.0/dist-w32/curl-7.33.0-devel-mingw32.zip
+unzip curl-7.33.0-devel-mingw32.zip
+mv curl-7.33.0-devel-mingw32/include/* include/
+mv curl-7.33.0-devel-mingw32/lib/* lib/
+mv curl-7.33.0-devel-mingw32/bin/* bin/
+rm -rf curl-7.33.0-devel-mingw32
+
+
+** clean up
+
+rm *.zip
+
+
+** Building cgminer
+
+Go back to the cgminer directory.
+
+At time of writing (3.8.1) cgminer doesn't support out-of-tree build
+directories so you'll need to rerun configure to switch between
+building for linux and cross-building for win32 (or check out totally
+separate working directories.)
+
+Configure command:
+
+CPPFLAGS="-I`pwd`/../cgminer-win32-deps/include" LDFLAGS="-L`pwd`/../cgminer-win32-deps/lib -lcurldll" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/i586-mingw32 --host=i586-mingw32msvc --build=i686-linux 
+
+^^^ Plus whatever configure arguments you want to add. Note the paths
+    to cgminer-win32-deps that you may need to change.
+
+And make:
+
+make
+
+After cgminer builds, the next steps are the same as for native
+building as given under "Copy files to a build directory/folder"
+(DLLs can all be found in the cgminer-win32-deps/bin directory.)
+