Add support for building native win32 tools

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@@ -2716,6 +2716,16 @@ necessary. For example using the ELDK on a 4xx CPU, please enter:
        $ CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xx-
        $ export CROSS_COMPILE
 
+Note: If you wish to generate Windows versions of the utilities in
+      the tools directory you can use the MinGW toolchain
+      (http://www.mingw.org).  Set your HOST tools to the MinGW
+      toolchain and execute 'make tools'.  For example:
+
+       $ make HOSTCC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc HOSTSTRIP=i586-mingw32msvc-strip tools
+
+      Binaries such as tools/mkimage.exe will be created which can
+      be executed on computers running Windows.
+
 U-Boot is intended to be simple to build. After installing the
 sources you must configure U-Boot for one specific board type. This
 is done by typing: