diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index bf944821302cfc34579ea5f43822007c9ff85ac1..bb05a7b846789d6f0b6d431e9aeecf00459b0c58 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Makefile*
 
 *.pro.user
 moc_*.cpp
+moc_*.cxx*
 ui_*.h
 .*.swp
 *~
@@ -16,5 +17,5 @@ ui_*.h
 qrc_ressources.cpp
 CMakeCache.txt
 CMakeFiles
-*.cmake
-
+cmake_install.cmake
+CPack*.cmake
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 15f263d29d1f48d8cd1d639bdb131aa2e59b3abd..0f7854b9257af2cfb750e2d1d6630d573c99e42f 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -33,18 +33,9 @@ FIND_PACKAGE(LIBVLC)
 INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(${LIBVLC_INCLUDE_DIR})
 
 # search for Qt4
-FIND_PACKAGE(Qt4 REQUIRED)
-
-SET( QT_USE_QTXML      TRUE )
-SET( QT_USE_QTNETWORK  TRUE )
-SET( QT_USE_QTSVG      TRUE )
-SET( QT_USE_QTXML      TRUE )
-IF (ENABLE_TESTS)
-  SET( QT_USE_QTTEST  TRUE )
-  ENABLE_TESTING()
-ENDIF (ENABLE_TESTS)
-
-INCLUDE( ${QT_USE_FILE} )
+FIND_PACKAGE(Qt4 4.5.1 COMPONENTS QtCore QtGui QtSvg QtXml REQUIRED )
+
+INCLUDE(${QT_USE_FILE})
 ADD_DEFINITIONS(${QT_DEFINITIONS})
 
 # layout of VLMC installation
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 46b35021afd3429d742e34fd89baa7c3e1661c8a..00aa7736cfe3dd35e5a4760041d9da6b9e337372 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Building VLMC
 
 A typical way to build VLMC is:
 
-	qmake
+	cmake .
 	make
 
 Running VLMC
diff --git a/INSTALL.win32 b/INSTALL.win32
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9aaad4011fe5080e2cd3ce48e9b882ae8db27476
--- /dev/null
+++ b/INSTALL.win32
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+
+Cross-compilation (from Unix)
+=============================
+
+Download contribs from:
+http://vlmc.org/~etix/contribs/
+
+To be continued...
+
+----------------------------------------------------------
+cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=cmake/toolchain-win32.cmake .
diff --git a/cmake/toolchain-win32.cmake b/cmake/toolchain-win32.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e37ca1d795497494dbab9bfa59599b0016a06655
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmake/toolchain-win32.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# this one is important
+SET(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME Windows)
+#this one not so much
+SET(CMAKE_SYSTEM_VERSION 1)
+
+# specify the cross compiler
+SET(CMAKE_C_COMPILER   /usr/bin/i486-mingw32-gcc)
+SET(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER /usr/bin/i486-mingw32-g++)
+
+# where is the target environment 
+SET(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH  contribs)
+
+# search for programs in the build host directories
+SET(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_PROGRAM NEVER)
+# for libraries and headers in the target directories
+SET(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_LIBRARY ONLY)
+SET(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_INCLUDE ONLY)