X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/u/mdw/putty/blobdiff_plain/2c228de6f59c02912448cd6877449a62d67355ac..ae0500e538e2fb821ef1ad8529aed7999acf7a19:/README

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+++ b/README
@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@ 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 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.
@@ -34,11 +37,30 @@ Makefiles and equivalents:
  - 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.
+
+   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/