merged updated win32 port by Larry Adams and the cacti team

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+Win32 Build Instructions:\r
+\r
+1) Make sure that the contrib file has all the required files for RRDtool\r
+2) Open rrd.sln from Visual Studio\r
+3) Select the 'Release' Build Type\r
+4) Build the Solution\r
+5) rrdtool.exe, and rrdupdate.exe will be located in the Release directory\r
+6) To install, copy the two binaries, along with the host of DLL files to\r
+   their permanent location\r
+7) To build the ActiveState perl module.  Follow the instructions under\r
+   the README file under 'binding/perl-shared'\r