diff --git a/README.maintainer b/README.maintainer
index cbd0beb4..1a4e57fe 100644
--- a/README.maintainer
+++ b/README.maintainer
@@ -45,9 +45,8 @@ Release Reminders
 
  * To create Windows binary releases, extract the qpdf source
    distribution in Windows (MSYS + MINGW, MSVC) and run
-   ./make_windows_releases from there.  You will have to manually
-   create zip files from the install-mingw and install-msys
-   directories; instructions are echoed by the script.
+   ./make_windows_releases from there.  You will need to have zip in
+   your path.
 
  * Remember to copy README-what-to-download.txt separately onto the
    download area and make it the default for Windows platforms.
diff --git a/make_dist b/make_dist
index d0004162..d5f11a2e 100755
--- a/make_dist
+++ b/make_dist
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ $fh = safe_open("libqpdf/QPDF.cc");
 my $code_version = 'unknown';
 while (<$fh>)
 {
-    if (m/QPDF::qpdf_version = ([^\"]+)\"/)
+    if (m/QPDF::qpdf_version = \"([^\"]+)\"/)
     {
 	$code_version = $1;
 	last;
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ if ($version ne $config_version)
 }
 if ($version ne $code_version)
 {
-    print "$whoami: qpdf.cc version = $code_version\n";
+    print "$whoami: QPDF.cc version = $code_version\n";
     $version_error = 1;
 }
 if ($version ne $doc_version)
diff --git a/make_windows_releases b/make_windows_releases
index 59e30208..eb7fc7e5 100755
--- a/make_windows_releases
+++ b/make_windows_releases
@@ -21,8 +21,14 @@ make distclean
 cp -p README-windows-install.txt install-mingw/qpdf*/README.txt
 cp -p README-windows-install.txt install-msvc/qpdf*/README.txt
 
+cd install-mingw
+v=qpdf-*
+zip -r ../$v-bin-mingw.zip $v
+cd ../install-msys
+zip -r ../$v-bin-msvc.zip $v
+cd ..
+
 set +x
 
 echo ""
-echo "Create qpdf-VERSION-bin-mingw.zip from install-mingw."
-echo "Create qpdf-VERSION-bin-msvc.zip from install-msvc."
+echo "$v-bin-mingw.zip adn $v-bin-msvc.zip have been created."