-f Makefile.vc' to build all the PuTTY binaries.
Last time we checked, PuTTY built with vanilla VC7, or VC6 with
- the Platform SDK.
+ an up-to-date Platform SDK. (It is possible to build with
+ vanilla VC6, but you'll have to remove some functionality with
+ directives such as NO_IPV6.)
- (We've also had one report of success building with the
+ (We've also had reports 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.)
+ haven't tried this ourselves. Version 1.3 is reported to work.)
- Inside the windows/MSVC subdirectory are MS Visual Studio project
files for doing GUI-based builds of the various PuTTY utilities.
- windows/Makefile.cyg is for Cygwin / mingw32 installations. Type
`make -f Makefile.cyg' while in the `windows' subdirectory to
- build all the PuTTY binaries. Note that by default the multiple
- monitor support is excluded from the Cygwin build, since at the
- time of writing Cygwin doesn't include the necessary headers.
+ build all the PuTTY binaries.
+
+ You'll probably need quite a recent version of the w32api package.
+ Note that by default the multiple monitor and HTML Help support are
+ excluded from the Cygwin build, since at the time of writing Cygwin
+ doesn't include the necessary headers.
- windows/Makefile.lcc is for lcc-win32. Type `make -f
Makefile.lcc' while in the `windows' subdirectory. (You will
- Inside the windows/DEVCPP subdirectory are Dev-C++ project
files for doing GUI-based builds of the various PuTTY utilities.
+The PuTTY team actively use Makefile.vc and Makefile.cyg, so we'll
+probably notice problems with those toolchains fairly quickly. Please
+report any problems with the other toolchains mentioned above.
+
For building on Unix:
- unix/configure is for Unix and GTK. If you don't have GTK, you
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