Makefile.bor' while in the `windows' subdirectory to build all
the PuTTY binaries.
- - windows/Makefile.cyg is for Cygwin / MinGW installations. Type
- `make -f Makefile.cyg' while in the `windows' subdirectory to
+ - windows/Makefile.mgw is for MinGW / Cygwin installations. Type
+ `make -f Makefile.mgw' while in the `windows' subdirectory to
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.
+ MinGW and friends can lag behind other toolchains in their support
+ for the Windows API. Compile-time levers are provided to exclude
+ some features; the defaults are set appropriately for the
+ 'mingw-w64' cross-compiler provided with Ubuntu 14.04. If you are
+ using an older toolchain, you may need to exclude more features;
+ alternatively, you may find that upgrading to a recent version of
+ the 'w32api' package helps.
- 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 (with VC7) and Makefile.cyg
+The PuTTY team actively use Makefile.vc (with VC7) and Makefile.mgw
(with mingw32), so we'll probably notice problems with those
toolchains fairly quickly. Please report any problems with the other
toolchains mentioned above.
- It's also possible to build the Windows version of PuTTY to run
on Unix by using Winelib. To do this, change to the `windows'
- directory and run `make -f Makefile.cyg CC=winegcc RC=wrc'.
+ directory and run `make -f Makefile.mgw CC=winegcc RC=wrc'.
All of the Makefiles are generated automatically from the file
`Recipe' by the Perl script `mkfiles.pl' (except for the Unix one,