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   1 This is the README for the source archive of PuTTY, a free Win32
   2 Telnet and SSH client.
   3
   4 If you want to rebuild PuTTY from source, we provide three
   5 Makefiles:
   6
   7  - Makefile.vc is for MS Visual C++ systems. Type `nmake -f
   8    Makefile.vc' to build all the PuTTY binaries.
   9
  10  - Makefile.bor is for the Borland C compiler. Type `make -f
  11    Makefile.bor' to build all the PuTTY binaries.
  12
  13  - Makefile.cyg is for Cygwin / mingw32 installations. Type `make -f
  14    Makefile.cyg' to build all the PuTTY binaries. Note that by
  15    default the Pageant WinNT security features and the multiple
  16    monitor support are excluded from the Cygwin build, since at the
  17    time of writing this Cygwin doesn't include the necessary
  18    headers.
  19
  20 If you have MS Visual Studio version 6 and you want to build a
  21 DevStudio project for GUI editing and debugging, you should be aware
  22 that the default GUI configuration of the compiler falls over on the
  23 nasty macros in ssh.c. This is a bug in Visual Studio. The culprit
  24 is the /ZI compiler option (debug info generation: Edit and
  25 Continue). To avoid this problem while compiling PuTTY under VS6,
  26 you should:
  27  - right-click ssh.c in the FileView
  28  - click Settings
  29  - select the C/C++ tab and the General category
  30  - under `Debug info:', select anything _other_ than `Program
  31    Database for Edit and Continue'.
  32 Alternatively disable the /ZI option, replacing it with a saner
  33 value, such as /Zi.
  34
  35 All of the Makefiles are generated automatically from the file
  36 `Recipe' by the Perl script `mkfiles.pl'. Additions and corrections
  37 to Recipe and the mkfiles.pl are much more useful than additions and
  38 corrections to the alternative Makefiles themselves.
  39
  40 The PuTTY home web site is
  41
  42     http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
  43
  44 If you want to send bug reports or feature requests, please read the
  45 Feedback section of the web site before doing so. Sending one-line
  46 reports saying `it doesn't work' will waste your time as much as
  47 ours.
  48
  49 See the file LICENCE for the licence conditions.