Sprinkle some header comments in various files in an attempt to explain what

[u/mdw/putty] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index 68eb2c8..ef369c5 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ Makefiles and equivalents. (If you have fetched the source from
 Subversion, you'll have to generate the Makefiles yourself -- see
 below.)
 
+There are various compile-time directives that you can use to
+disable or modify certain features; it may be necessary to do this
+in some environments. They are documented in `Recipe', and in
+comments in many of the generated Makefiles.
+
 For building on Windows:
 
  - windows/Makefile.vc is for command-line builds on MS Visual C++
@@ -43,6 +48,9 @@ For building on Windows:
    Makefile.lcc' while in the `windows' subdirectory. (You will
    probably need to specify COMPAT=-DNO_MULTIMON.)
 
+ - Inside the windows/DEVCPP subdirectory are Dev-C++ project
+   files for doing GUI-based builds of the various PuTTY utilities.
+
 For building on Unix:
 
  - unix/configure is for Unix and GTK. If you don't have GTK, you