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@itemize
+@item Building natively using MSYS can be sped up by disabling implicit rules
+in the Makefile by calling @code{make -r} instead of plain @code{make}. This
+speed up is close to non-existent for normal one-off builds and is only
+noticeable when running make for a second time (for example in
+@code{make install}).
+
@item In order to compile FFplay, you must have the MinGW development library
of SDL. Get it from @url{http://www.libsdl.org}.
Edit the @file{bin/sdl-config} script so that it points to the correct prefix