-This is the README for PuTTY, a free Win32 Telnet and SSH client.
+This is the README for the source archive of PuTTY, a free Win32
+Telnet and SSH client.
-The provided Makefile is for MS Visual C++ systems. Type `nmake' to
-build both putty.exe (the main program) and pscp.exe (an SCP
-client). The comment at the top of the Makefile gives extra build
-options you can use to build in limited Win32s compatibility, a hack
-to pass SSH through some types of firewall, and `official' version
-numbers.
+If you want to rebuild PuTTY from source, we provide three
+Makefiles:
-Setting up a project file in the Visual C++ IDE sometimes fails to
-work. In particular, Visual Studio 6 falls over on the odd macro
-usage in ssh.c. This is a bug in Visual Studio, since the VC++6
-command line compiler works fine. If in doubt, just use `nmake'.
+ - Makefile.vc is for 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.)
+
+ - Makefile.bor is for the Borland C compiler. Type `make -f
+ Makefile.bor' 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.
+
+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
+corrections to the alternative Makefiles themselves.
The PuTTY home web site is
- http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty.html
+ http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
-Bug reports and feature requests should be sent to
-<putty-bugs@lists.tartarus.org>. PLEASE read the section on the web
-site about how to report bugs effectively. Do NOT send one-line
-reports saying `it doesn't work'!
+If you want to send bug reports or feature requests, please read the
+Feedback section of the web site before doing so. Sending one-line
+reports saying `it doesn't work' will waste your time as much as
+ours.
See the file LICENCE for the licence conditions.
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