Joe Yates's patch to make mkfiles.pl generate Visual Studio project

[u/mdw/putty] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index de698aa..b9a7cc6 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,17 +1,26 @@
 This is the README for the source archive of PuTTY, a free Win32
 Telnet and SSH client.
 
-If you want to rebuild PuTTY from source, we provide three
-Makefiles:
+If you want to rebuild PuTTY from source, we provide a variety of
+Makefiles and equivalents:
 
- - Makefile.vc is for MS Visual C++ systems. Type `nmake -f
-   Makefile.vc' to build all the PuTTY binaries.
+ - Makefile.vc is for command-line builds on MS Visual C++ systems.
+   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.
+
+   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.
 
@@ -22,21 +31,6 @@ Makefiles:
    time of writing this Cygwin doesn't include the necessary
    headers.
 
-If you have MS Visual Studio version 6 and you want to build a
-DevStudio project for GUI editing and debugging, you should be aware
-that the default GUI configuration of the compiler falls over on the
-nasty macros in ssh.c. This is a bug in Visual Studio. The culprit
-is the /ZI compiler option (debug info generation: Edit and
-Continue). To avoid this problem while compiling PuTTY under VS6,
-you should:
- - right-click ssh.c in the FileView
- - click Settings
- - select the C/C++ tab and the General category
- - under `Debug info:', select anything _other_ than `Program
-   Database for Edit and Continue'.
-Alternatively disable the /ZI option, replacing it with a saner
-value, such as /Zi.
-
 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