diff --git a/docs/INSTALL.md b/docs/INSTALL.md
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--- a/docs/INSTALL.md
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@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ Building for Windows XP is required as a minimum.
 You can build curl with:
 
 - Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 v9.0 or later (`_MSC_VER >= 1500`)
-- MinGW-w64
+- MinGW-w64 3.0 or later (`__MINGW64_VERSION_MAJOR >= 3`)
 
 ## Building Windows DLLs and C runtime (CRT) linkage issues