From: klaus triendl <klaus@triendl.eu>
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2025 08:26:34 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Updated Windows notes on the use of “no-makedepend” for new builds
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Updated Windows notes on the use of “no-makedepend” for new builds

Reviewed-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/27361)

(cherry picked from commit afd32bcb5456a9e33b0f4e07f572263b404d4d4b)
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diff --git a/NOTES-WINDOWS.md b/NOTES-WINDOWS.md
index f4573fd4308..4936d58c9aa 100644
--- a/NOTES-WINDOWS.md
+++ b/NOTES-WINDOWS.md
@@ -87,6 +87,11 @@ Quick start
        on the Universal CRT or
     - `perl Configure`              to let Configure figure out the platform
 
+    a. If you don't plan to develop OpenSSL yourself and don't need to rebuild,
+       in other words, if you always do a new build, turning off the build
+       dependency feature can speed up build times by up to 50%:
+       `perl Configure no-makedepend`
+
  6. `nmake`
 
  7. `nmake test`