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.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.)
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/