Improve "compile on Windows" section in readme

diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
index 25663e48f8f8c84d8f2f8f165b04ff0e118eb49d..060392415db730d658e728a906e51102b83ad98e 100644 (file)
--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ $ ./minetest
 - If you want to install it system-wide (or are making a distribution package), you will want to use -DRUN_IN_PLACE=0
 - You can build a bare server or a bare client by specifying -DBUILD_CLIENT=0 or -DBUILD_SERVER=0
 - You can select between Release and Debug build by -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=<Debug or Release>
-  - Note that the Debug build is considerably slower
+  - Debug build is slower, but gives much more useful output in a debugger
 
 Compiling on Windows:
 ---------------------
@@ -90,16 +90,18 @@ Compiling on Windows:
                http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/index.html
        * Zlib library (zlibwapi.lib and zlibwapi.dll from zlib125dll.zip):
                http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/index.html
-       * gettext bibrary and tools:
+       * Optional: gettext bibrary and tools:
                http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/downlinks/gettext.php
+               - This is used for other UI languages. Feel free to leave it out.
        * And, of course, Minetest-c55:
                http://celeron.55.lt/~celeron55/minetest/download
 - Steps:
        - Select a directory called DIR hereafter in which you will operate.
        - Make sure you have CMake and a compiler installed.
-       - Download all the other stuff to DIR and extract them into there. All those
-         packages contain a nice base directory in them, which should end up being
-         the direct subdirectories of DIR.
+       - Download all the other stuff to DIR and extract them into there.
+         ("extract here", not "extract to packagename/")
+       - All those packages contain a nice base directory in them, which
+         should end up being the direct subdirectories of DIR.
        - You will end up with a directory structure like this (+=dir, -=file):
        -----------------
        + DIR
@@ -119,7 +121,7 @@ Compiling on Windows:
                        + lib
                        + include
                        ...
-               + gettext
+               + gettext (optional)
                        +bin
                        +include
                        +lib
@@ -163,7 +165,8 @@ Compiling on Windows:
        If using MSVC:
                - Open the generated minetest.sln
                - The project defaults to the "Debug" configuration. Make very sure to
-                 select "Release", unless you want to debug some stuff (it's slower)
+                 select "Release", unless you want to debug some stuff (it's slower
+                 and might not even work at all)
                - Build the ALL_BUILD project
                - Build the INSTALL project
                - You should now have a working game with the executable in