diff --git a/docs/gtk/install.txt b/docs/gtk/install.txt
index 58fb667f4b..78171fa2e7 100644
--- a/docs/gtk/install.txt
+++ b/docs/gtk/install.txt
@@ -200,6 +200,20 @@ untested).
 
 The SGI native compiler support has only been tested on Irix 6.5.
 
+* Building wxGTK on Cygwin
+--------------------------
+
+The normal build instructions should work fine on Cygwin. The one difference
+with Cygwin is that when using the "--enable-shared" configure option (which
+is the default) the API is exported explicitly using __declspec(dllexport)
+rather than all global symbols being available.
+
+This shouldn't make a difference using the library and should be a little
+more efficient. However if an export attribute has been missed somewhere you
+will see linking errors. If this happens then you can work around the
+problem by setting LDFLAGS=-Wl,--export-all-symbols. Please also let us know
+about it on the wx-dev mailing list.
+
 * Create your configuration
 ---------------------------
 
diff --git a/docs/motif/install.txt b/docs/motif/install.txt
index 923df5afb3..4c9a716969 100644
--- a/docs/motif/install.txt
+++ b/docs/motif/install.txt
@@ -231,6 +231,20 @@ untested).
 
 The SGI native compiler support has only been tested on Irix 6.5.
 
+* Building wxMotif on Cygwin
+----------------------------
+
+The normal build instructions should work fine on Cygwin. The one difference
+with Cygwin is that when using the "--enable-shared" configure option (which
+is the default) the API is exported explicitly using __declspec(dllexport)
+rather than all global symbols being available.
+
+This shouldn't make a difference using the library and should be a little
+more efficient. However if an export attribute has been missed somewhere you
+will see linking errors. If this happens then you can work around the
+problem by setting LDFLAGS=-Wl,--export-all-symbols. Please also let us know
+about it on the wx-dev mailing list.
+
 * Create your configuration
 ---------------------------
 
diff --git a/docs/x11/install.txt b/docs/x11/install.txt
index 46e8caa4a1..dbcef79fed 100644
--- a/docs/x11/install.txt
+++ b/docs/x11/install.txt
@@ -217,6 +217,20 @@ untested).
 
 The SGI native compiler support has only been tested on Irix 6.5.
 
+* Building wxX11 on Cygwin
+--------------------------
+
+The normal build instructions should work fine on Cygwin. The one difference
+with Cygwin is that when using the "--enable-shared" configure option (which
+is the default) the API is exported explicitly using __declspec(dllexport)
+rather than all global symbols being available.
+
+This shouldn't make a difference using the library and should be a little
+more efficient. However if an export attribute has been missed somewhere you
+will see linking errors. If this happens then you can work around the
+problem by setting LDFLAGS=-Wl,--export-all-symbols. Please also let us know
+about it on the wx-dev mailing list.
+
 * Create your configuration
 ---------------------------