+<listitem><para> You almost certainly want to set
+<programlisting>
+ SplitObjs = NO
+</programlisting>
+in your <filename>build.mk</filename> configuration file (see <xref linkend="sec-build-config">).
+This tells the build system not to split each library into a myriad of little object files, one
+for each function. Doing so reduces binary sizes for statically-linked binaries, but on Windows
+it dramatically increases the time taken to build the libraries in the first place.
+</para>
+</listitem>
+