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+Building the MinGW environment
+==============================
+
+Build order:
+
+- mingw-filesystem
+- mingw-binutils
+- mingw-headers (bundle_dummy_pthread_headers=1)
+- mingw-w64-tools
+- mingw-gcc (bootstrap=1, enable_libgomp=0)
+- mingw-crt (bootstrap=1)
+- mingw-crt (bootstrap=0)
+- mingw-filesystem (regenerate standard-dlls-mingw32/64)
+- mingw-gcc (bootstrap=0, enable_libgomp=0)
+- mingw-winpthreads
+- mingw-headers (bundle_dummy_pthread_headers=0)
+- mingw-gcc (bootstrap=0, enable_libgomp=1)
+- mingw-gdb