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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.
@@ -38,10 +42,13 @@ For building on Windows:
    `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
@@ -50,7 +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.