From 7fdcb804a8f1c5b030629cd5a65a6fc4d66155a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Tatham Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 20:25:09 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update Visual Studio versions in README. VC6 is hopefully long gone, and I've recently been testing on more up-to-date versions. --- README | 14 ++++---------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index efa8941c..6a83a3e0 100644 --- 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,