diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 054debc0b..7fa4f020c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2004-04-12  Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>
+
+	* README.windows: Mentioned C++ misdetection trouble.
+
 2004-04-11  Karl Heinz Kremer <khk@khk.net>
 
 	* backend/epson_usb.c: Added missing device IDs for current MFDs
diff --git a/README.windows b/README.windows
index a3e5eed30..6ee68b7a0 100644
--- a/README.windows
+++ b/README.windows
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ SANE on Cygwin/Win32
 Prerequisites
 =============
 
-To be able to compile sane-backends, you need to have Cygwin installed, with at least the following package(s):
+To be able to compile sane-backends, you need to have Cygwin installed,
+with at least the following package(s):
   - gcc
 
 You can get Cygwin at http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
@@ -12,6 +13,15 @@ The scanner must be detected by Windows and not be disabled. Check
 with the hardware manager.
 
 
+Building
+========
+
+See general README for build basics. The autoconf script (configure) checks
+for C++ compilers and misdetects CC (=cc = gcc) a a c++ compiler because of
+the case-insensitive filesystem. If that happens, one work-around will be to
+install a real C++ compiler.
+
+
 Scanning
 ========