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+$Id$
+@author Cory Sharp <cssharp@eecs.berkeley.edu>
+
+Follow these directions to recreate the standalone tos-bsl.exe. After doing
+this, you should recreate ../tos-bsl-win.tar.gz with the contents of the
+generated bin directory.
+
+--
+
+To build a binary executable msp430-bsl.exe for Windows, first download
+and install Python 2.3 for Windows [1][2], the version included with
+Cygwin is insufficient.  Then install py2exe [3][4].
+
+  [1] http://www.python.org/download/
+  [2] http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.3.4/Python-2.3.4.exe
+  [3] http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/
+  [4] http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/py2exe/py2exe-0.5.3.win32-py2.3.exe?download
+
+To compile msp430-bsl, make sure the Windows version of python is
+first in your path (i.e., before any cygwin version), then run
+make. When successful, that command creates a bin/ directory, which
+contains tos-bsl.exe and its supporting files.  You must install
+bin/ and bin/lib/ all together, or it won't work.  I installed it into
+c:/mspgcc/bin, directly over the version that came with MSPGCC.