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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/install-windows.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/install-windows.sgml
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+++ b/doc/src/sgml/install-windows.sgml
@@ -438,6 +438,7 @@ $ENV{CONFIG}="Debug";
<userinput>vcregress contribcheck</userinput>
<userinput>vcregress ecpgcheck</userinput>
<userinput>vcregress isolationcheck</userinput>
+<userinput>vcregress tapcheck</userinput>
<userinput>vcregress upgradecheck</userinput>
</screen>
@@ -450,6 +451,29 @@ $ENV{CONFIG}="Debug";
For more information about the regression tests, see
<xref linkend="regress">.
</para>
+
+ <para>
+ Running the TAP regression tests, with "vcregress tapcheck", requires an
+ additional Perl module to be installed:
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><productname>IPC::Run</productname></term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ As of this writing, <literal>IPC::Run</> is not included in the
+ ActiveState Perl installation, nor in the ActiveState Perl Package
+ Manager (PPM) library. To install, download the
+ <filename>IPC-Run-&lt;version&gt;.tar.gz</> source archive from CPAN,
+ at <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/IPC-Run/"></>, and
+ uncompress. Edit the <filename>buildenv.pl</> file, and add a PERL5LIB
+ variable to point to the <filename>lib</> subdirectory from the
+ extracted archive. For example:
+<programlisting>
+$ENV{PERL5LIB}=$ENV{PERL5LIB} . ';c:\IPC-Run-0.94\lib';
+</programlisting>
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </para>
</sect2>
<sect2>