This is the README for the source archive of PuTTY, a free Win32
-Telnet and SSH client.
+and Unix Telnet and SSH client.
If you want to rebuild PuTTY from source, we provide a variety of
-Makefiles and equivalents:
+Makefiles and equivalents. (If you have fetched the source from CVS,
+you'll have to generate the Makefiles yourself -- see below.)
+
+For building on Windows:
- Makefile.vc is for command-line builds on MS Visual C++ systems.
Type `nmake -f Makefile.vc' to build all the PuTTY binaries.
Makefile.cyg' to build all the PuTTY binaries. Note that by
default the Pageant WinNT security features and the multiple
monitor support are excluded from the Cygwin build, since at the
- time of writing this Cygwin doesn't include the necessary
- headers.
+ time of writing Cygwin doesn't include the necessary headers.
+
+ - Makefile.lcc is for lcc-win32. Type `make -f Makefile.lcc'. (You
+ will probably need to specify COMPAT=-DNO_MULTIMON.)
+
+For building on Unix:
+
+ - unix/Makefile.gtk is for Unix and GTK. If you don't have GTK, you
+ should still be able to build the command-line utilities (PSCP,
+ PSFTP, Plink, PuTTYgen) using this makefile. The makefile expects
+ you to change into the `unix' subdirectory, then run `make -f
+ Makefile.gtk'. Note that Unix PuTTY has mostly only been tested
+ on Linux so far; portability problems such as BSD-style ptys or
+ different header file requirements are expected.
+
+ For the graphical utilities, Gtk+-1.2 is required. Gtk+-2.0 is not
+ yet supported.
+
+ There is an `install' target; note that by default it tries to
+ install `man' pages, which need to be built using Halibut first --
+ see below.
All of the Makefiles are generated automatically from the file
`Recipe' by the Perl script `mkfiles.pl'. Additions and corrections
to Recipe and the mkfiles.pl are much more useful than additions and
corrections to the alternative Makefiles themselves.
+Documentation (in various formats including Windows Help and Unix
+`man' pages) is to be built from the Halibut (`.but') files in the
+`doc' subdirectory using `doc/Makefile'. Halibut can be found at
+<http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/halibut/>.
+
The PuTTY home web site is
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/