I went ahead and clarified this. I hope this is helpful in avoiding your experience for other:

https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/commit/c9d3a3a72a861986b85e931cafda6cb732da6be2

On Nov 28, 2019, at 12:15 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika@gmail.com> wrote:

The platform subheadings then list platform-specific options, build configurations, etc. I did not feel it make sense to have the same general steps repeated for each platform.

Should we add some sort of "Now that your build system is setup, follow the general auto tools build instructions." line to the Windows subsection?

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