X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/u/mdw/putty/blobdiff_plain/58de2f3c7d0312d782a9940c898399f473fb2a2b..05bea829b8868f5db4ac048897e944ed05dfc457:/README diff --git a/README b/README index b9a7cc63..fb627ca1 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,8 +1,11 @@ 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 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. @@ -28,14 +31,38 @@ Makefiles and equivalents: 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.) + +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. + + 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 +. + The PuTTY home web site is http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/