systems. Change into the `windows' subdirectory and type `nmake
-f Makefile.vc' to build all the PuTTY binaries.
- As of 2016, we successfully compiled PuTTY with both Visual Studio
+ As of 2017, we successfully compile 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.
+ (The binaries from Visual Studio 14 are only compatible with
+ Windows XP and up. Binaries from Visual Studio 7 ought to work
+ with anything from Windows 95 onward.)
+
- 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 7 and 10.
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 VC7/10) 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,
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