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[PuTTY.git] / README

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@@ -17,10 +17,14 @@ For building on Windows:
    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.
@@ -53,7 +57,7 @@ For building on Windows:
  - 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.mgw
+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.