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   1 This is the README for the source archive of PuTTY, a free Win32
   2 Telnet and SSH client.
   3
   4 If you want to rebuild PuTTY from source, we provide a variety of
   5 Makefiles and equivalents:
   6
   7  - Makefile.vc is for command-line builds on MS Visual C++ systems.
   8    Type `nmake -f Makefile.vc' to build all the PuTTY binaries.
   9
  10    (We've also had one report of success building with the
  11    OpenWatcom compiler -- www.openwatcom.org -- using Makefile.vc
  12    with `wmake -ms -f makefile.vc' and NO_MULTIMON, although we
  13    haven't tried this ourselves.)
  14
  15  - Inside the MSVC subdirectory are MS Visual Studio project files
  16    for doing GUI-based builds of the various PuTTY utilities. These
  17    have been tested on Visual Studio 6.
  18
  19    You should be able to build each PuTTY utility by loading the
  20    corresponding .dsp file in Visual Studio. For example,
  21    MSVC/putty/putty.dsp builds PuTTY itself, MSVC/plink/plink.dsp
  22    builds Plink, and so on.
  23
  24  - Makefile.bor is for the Borland C compiler. Type `make -f
  25    Makefile.bor' to build all the PuTTY binaries.
  26
  27  - Makefile.cyg is for Cygwin / mingw32 installations. Type `make -f
  28    Makefile.cyg' to build all the PuTTY binaries. Note that by
  29    default the Pageant WinNT security features and the multiple
  30    monitor support are excluded from the Cygwin build, since at the
  31    time of writing this Cygwin doesn't include the necessary
  32    headers.
  33
  34  - Makefile.lcc is for lcc-win32. Type `make -f Makefile.lcc'. (You
  35    will probably need to specify COMPAT=-DNO_MULTIMON.)
  36
  37 All of the Makefiles are generated automatically from the file
  38 `Recipe' by the Perl script `mkfiles.pl'. Additions and corrections
  39 to Recipe and the mkfiles.pl are much more useful than additions and
  40 corrections to the alternative Makefiles themselves.
  41
  42 The PuTTY home web site is
  43
  44     http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
  45
  46 If you want to send bug reports or feature requests, please read the
  47 Feedback section of the web site before doing so. Sending one-line
  48 reports saying `it doesn't work' will waste your time as much as
  49 ours.
  50
  51 See the file LICENCE for the licence conditions.