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     <h3><a name="mingw">Notes for MinGW (and Cygwin with -mno-cygwin) GCC
     Users</a></h3>
 
-    <p>If you are using a version of Python prior to 2.4.1, you will
+    <p>If you are using a version of Python prior to 2.4.1 with a
+    MinGW prior to 3.0.0 (with binutils-2.13.90-20030111-1), you will
     need to create a MinGW-compatible version of the Python library;
     the one shipped with Python will only work with a
     Microsoft-compatible linker. Follow the instructions in the