diff --git a/Doc/Manual/Windows.html b/Doc/Manual/Windows.html
index da8a5d6bf..6349f355a 100644
--- a/Doc/Manual/Windows.html
+++ b/Doc/Manual/Windows.html
@@ -313,6 +313,18 @@ If you want to check out SWIG to a different folder to the proposed
 the autotools will fail miserably on those.
   </li>
 
+  <li>
+The PCRE third party library needs to be built next. 
+Download the latest PCRE source tarball, such as <tt>pcre-8.10.tar.bz2</tt>, from 
+<a href=http://www.pcre.org>PCRE</a> and place in the <tt>/usr/src/swig</tt> directory.
+Build PCRE as a static library using the Tools/pcre-build.sh script as follows:
+
+<div class="shell"><pre>
+cd /usr/src/swig
+Tools/pcre-build.sh
+</pre></div>
+  </li>
+
   <li>
   You are now ready to build SWIG. Execute the following commands to build swig.exe:
 <div class="shell"><pre>
diff --git a/Tools/pcre-build.sh b/Tools/pcre-build.sh
index 2d991ceba..68ffe0b03 100755
--- a/Tools/pcre-build.sh
+++ b/Tools/pcre-build.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ usage() {
   echo "  - Download the latest PCRE source tarball from http://www.pcre.org and place in the"
   echo "    directory that you will configure and build SWIG."
   echo "  - Run this script in the same directory that you intend to configure and build SWIG in."
-  echo "  - Afterwards run the SWIG configure scrip which will then find and use the PCRE static"
+  echo "    This will configure and build PCRE as a static library."
+  echo "  - Afterwards run the SWIG configure script which will then find and use the PCRE static"
   echo "    libraries in the $pcre_subdir subdirectory."
   exit 0
 }