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1 | This is the README for the source archive of PuTTY, a free Win32 |
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2 | and Unix Telnet and SSH client. |
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3 | |
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4 | If you want to rebuild PuTTY from source, we provide a variety of |
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5 | Makefiles and equivalents. (If you have fetched the source from |
6 | Subversion, you'll have to generate the Makefiles yourself -- see |
7 | below.) |
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9 | There are various compile-time directives that you can use to |
10 | disable or modify certain features; it may be necessary to do this |
11 | in some environments. They are documented in `Recipe', and in |
12 | comments in many of the generated Makefiles. |
13 | |
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14 | For building on Windows: |
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15 | |
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16 | - windows/Makefile.vc is for command-line builds on MS Visual C++ |
17 | systems. Change into the `windows' subdirectory and type `nmake |
18 | -f Makefile.vc' to build all the PuTTY binaries. |
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19 | |
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20 | Last time we checked, PuTTY built with vanilla VC7, or VC6 with |
21 | the Platform SDK. |
22 | |
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23 | (We've also had one report of success building with the |
24 | OpenWatcom compiler -- www.openwatcom.org -- using Makefile.vc |
25 | with `wmake -ms -f makefile.vc' and NO_MULTIMON, although we |
26 | haven't tried this ourselves.) |
27 | |
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28 | - Inside the windows/MSVC subdirectory are MS Visual Studio project |
29 | files for doing GUI-based builds of the various PuTTY utilities. |
30 | These have been tested on Visual Studio 6. |
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31 | |
32 | You should be able to build each PuTTY utility by loading the |
33 | corresponding .dsp file in Visual Studio. For example, |
34 | MSVC/putty/putty.dsp builds PuTTY itself, MSVC/plink/plink.dsp |
35 | builds Plink, and so on. |
36 | |
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37 | - windows/Makefile.bor is for the Borland C compiler. Type `make -f |
38 | Makefile.bor' while in the `windows' subdirectory to build all |
39 | the PuTTY binaries. |
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40 | |
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41 | - windows/Makefile.cyg is for Cygwin / mingw32 installations. Type |
42 | `make -f Makefile.cyg' while in the `windows' subdirectory to |
43 | build all the PuTTY binaries. Note that by default the multiple |
44 | monitor support is excluded from the Cygwin build, since at the |
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45 | time of writing Cygwin doesn't include the necessary headers. |
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46 | |
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47 | - windows/Makefile.lcc is for lcc-win32. Type `make -f |
48 | Makefile.lcc' while in the `windows' subdirectory. (You will |
49 | probably need to specify COMPAT=-DNO_MULTIMON.) |
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50 | |
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51 | - Inside the windows/DEVCPP subdirectory are Dev-C++ project |
52 | files for doing GUI-based builds of the various PuTTY utilities. |
53 | |
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54 | For building on Unix: |
55 | |
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56 | - unix/configure is for Unix and GTK. If you don't have GTK, you |
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57 | should still be able to build the command-line utilities (PSCP, |
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58 | PSFTP, Plink, PuTTYgen) using this script. To use it, change |
59 | into the `unix' subdirectory, run `./configure' and then `make'. |
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60 | |
61 | Note that Unix PuTTY has mostly only been tested on Linux so far; |
62 | portability problems such as BSD-style ptys or different header file |
63 | requirements are expected. |
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64 | |
65 | - unix/Makefile.gtk is for non-autoconfigured builds. This makefile |
66 | expects you to change into the `unix' subdirectory, then run `make |
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67 | -f Makefile.gtk'. |
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69 | - For the graphical utilities, Gtk+-1.2 is required. Gtk+-2.0 is not |
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70 | yet supported. |
71 | |
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72 | - Both Unix Makefiles have an `install' target. Note that by default |
73 | it tries to install `man' pages, which you may need to have built |
74 | using Halibut first -- see below. |
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76 | All of the Makefiles are generated automatically from the file |
77 | `Recipe' by the Perl script `mkfiles.pl'. Additions and corrections |
78 | to Recipe and the mkfiles.pl are much more useful than additions and |
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79 | corrections to the alternative Makefiles themselves. |
80 | |
81 | The Unix `configure' script and its various requirements are generated |
82 | by the shell script `mkauto.sh', which requires GNU Autoconf, GNU |
83 | Automake, and Gtk; if you've got the source from Subversion rather |
84 | than using one of our source snapshots, you'll need to run this |
85 | yourself. |
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86 | |
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87 | Documentation (in various formats including Windows Help and Unix |
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88 | `man' pages) is built from the Halibut (`.but') files in the `doc' |
89 | subdirectory using `doc/Makefile'. If you aren't using one of our |
90 | source snapshots, you'll need to do this yourself. Halibut can be |
91 | found at <http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/halibut/>. |
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92 | |
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93 | The PuTTY home web site is |
94 | |
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95 | http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ |
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96 | |
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97 | If you want to send bug reports or feature requests, please read the |
98 | Feedback section of the web site before doing so. Sending one-line |
99 | reports saying `it doesn't work' will waste your time as much as |
100 | ours. |
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101 | |
102 | See the file LICENCE for the licence conditions. |