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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 For building on Windows:
   8
   9  - Makefile.vc is for command-line builds on MS Visual C++ systems.
  10    Type `nmake -f Makefile.vc' to build all the PuTTY binaries.
  11
  12    (We've also had one report of success building with the
  13    OpenWatcom compiler -- www.openwatcom.org -- using Makefile.vc
  14    with `wmake -ms -f makefile.vc' and NO_MULTIMON, although we
  15    haven't tried this ourselves.)
  16
  17  - Inside the MSVC subdirectory are MS Visual Studio project files
  18    for doing GUI-based builds of the various PuTTY utilities. These
  19    have been tested on Visual Studio 6.
  20
  21    You should be able to build each PuTTY utility by loading the
  22    corresponding .dsp file in Visual Studio. For example,
  23    MSVC/putty/putty.dsp builds PuTTY itself, MSVC/plink/plink.dsp
  24    builds Plink, and so on.
  25
  26  - Makefile.bor is for the Borland C compiler. Type `make -f
  27    Makefile.bor' to build all the PuTTY binaries.
  28
  29  - Makefile.cyg is for Cygwin / mingw32 installations. Type `make -f
  30    Makefile.cyg' to build all the PuTTY binaries. Note that by
  31    default the Pageant WinNT security features and the multiple
  32    monitor support are excluded from the Cygwin build, since at the
  33    time of writing this Cygwin doesn't include the necessary
  34    headers.
  35
  36  - Makefile.lcc is for lcc-win32. Type `make -f Makefile.lcc'. (You
  37    will probably need to specify COMPAT=-DNO_MULTIMON.)
  38
  39 For building on Unix:
  40
  41  - unix/Makefile.gtk is for Unix and GTK. If you don't have GTK, you
  42    should still be able to build the command-line utilities (PSCP,
  43    PSFTP, Plink, PuTTYgen) using this makefile. The makefile expects
  44    you to change into the `unix' subdirectory, then run `make -f
  45    Makefile.gtk'. Note that Unix PuTTY has mostly only been tested
  46    on Linux so far; portability problems such as BSD-style ptys or
  47    different header file requirements are expected.
  48
  49 All of the Makefiles are generated automatically from the file
  50 `Recipe' by the Perl script `mkfiles.pl'. Additions and corrections
  51 to Recipe and the mkfiles.pl are much more useful than additions and
  52 corrections to the alternative Makefiles themselves.
  53
  54 The PuTTY home web site is
  55
  56     http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
  57
  58 If you want to send bug reports or feature requests, please read the
  59 Feedback section of the web site before doing so. Sending one-line
  60 reports saying `it doesn't work' will waste your time as much as
  61 ours.
  62
  63 See the file LICENCE for the licence conditions.