winsftp.c needs winsecur.h for process protection.

[PuTTY.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index efa8941cd6630d1eabcaec609384c5a81f52e96a..10bd626156df6a2bfbd58db339d463d893a4b66d 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -17,19 +17,13 @@ For building on Windows:
    systems. Change into the `windows' subdirectory and type `nmake
    -f Makefile.vc' to build all the PuTTY binaries.
 
-   Last time we checked, PuTTY built with vanilla VC7, or VC6 with
-   an up-to-date Platform SDK. (It might still be possible to build
-   with vanilla VC6, but you'll certainly have to remove some
-   functionality with directives such as NO_IPV6.)
-
-   (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. Version 1.3 is reported to work.)
+   As of 2016, we successfully compiled PuTTY with both Visual Studio
+   7 (2003) and Visual Studio 14 (2015), so our guess is that it will
+   probably build with versions in between those as well.
 
  - Inside the windows/MSVC subdirectory are MS Visual Studio project
    files for doing GUI-based builds of the various PuTTY utilities.
-   These have been tested on Visual Studio 6.
+   These have been tested on Visual Studio 7 and 10.
 
    You should be able to build each PuTTY utility by loading the
    corresponding .dsp file in Visual Studio. For example,
@@ -72,10 +66,6 @@ For building on Unix:
    a normal Unix source archive but doesn't do so well at keeping the
    per-platform stuff in each platform's subdirectory; it's up to you.
 
-   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.
-
  - unix/Makefile.gtk and unix/Makefile.ux are for non-autoconfigured
    builds. These makefiles expect you to change into the `unix'
    subdirectory, then run `make -f Makefile.gtk' or `make -f