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
+Subversion, 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.
+ - windows/Makefile.vc is for command-line builds on MS Visual C++
+ systems. Change into the `windows' subdirectory and type `nmake
+ -f Makefile.vc' to build all the PuTTY binaries.
(We've also had one report of success building with the
OpenWatcom compiler -- www.openwatcom.org -- using Makefile.vc
with `wmake -ms -f makefile.vc' and NO_MULTIMON, although we
haven't tried this ourselves.)
- - Inside the MSVC subdirectory are MS Visual Studio project files
- for doing GUI-based builds of the various PuTTY utilities. These
- have been tested on Visual Studio 6.
+ - Inside the windows/MSVC subdirectory are MS Visual Studio project
+ files for doing GUI-based builds of the various PuTTY utilities.
+ These have been tested on Visual Studio 6.
You should be able to build each PuTTY utility by loading the
corresponding .dsp file in Visual Studio. For example,
MSVC/putty/putty.dsp builds PuTTY itself, MSVC/plink/plink.dsp
builds Plink, and so on.
- - Makefile.bor is for the Borland C compiler. Type `make -f
- Makefile.bor' to build all the PuTTY binaries.
+ - windows/Makefile.bor is for the Borland C compiler. Type `make -f
+ Makefile.bor' while in the `windows' subdirectory to build all
+ the PuTTY binaries.
- - Makefile.cyg is for Cygwin / mingw32 installations. Type `make -f
- 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.
+ - windows/Makefile.cyg is for Cygwin / mingw32 installations. Type
+ `make -f Makefile.cyg' while in the `windows' subdirectory to
+ build all the PuTTY binaries. Note that by default the multiple
+ monitor support is excluded from the Cygwin build, since at the
+ 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.)
+ - windows/Makefile.lcc is for lcc-win32. Type `make -f
+ Makefile.lcc' while in the `windows' subdirectory. (You will
+ probably need to specify COMPAT=-DNO_MULTIMON.)
For building on Unix:
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/
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