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Now that the new CMake build system is encouraging us to lay out the code like a set of libraries, it seems like a good idea to make them look more _like_ libraries, by putting things into separate modules as far as possible. This fixes several previous annoyances in which you had to link against some object in order to get a function you needed, but that object also contained other functions you didn't need which included link-time symbol references you didn't want to have to deal with. The usual offender was subsidiary supporting programs including misc.c for some innocuous function and then finding they had to deal with the requirements of buildinfo(). This big reorganisation introduces three new subdirectories called 'utils', one at the top level and one in each platform subdir. In each case, the directory contains basically the same files that were previously placed in the 'utils' build-time library, except that the ones that were extremely miscellaneous (misc.c, utils.c, uxmisc.c, winmisc.c, winmiscs.c, winutils.c) have been split up into much smaller pieces.
This is the README for PuTTY, a free Windows and Unix Telnet and SSH
client.
PuTTY is built using CMake <https://cmake.org/>. To compile in the
simplest way (on any of Linux, Windows or Mac), run these commands in
the source directory:
cmake .
cmake --build .
Documentation (in various formats including Windows Help and Unix
`man' pages) is built from the Halibut (`.but') files in the `doc'
subdirectory using `doc/Makefile'. If you aren't using one of our
source snapshots, you'll need to do this yourself. Halibut can be
found at <https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/halibut/>.
The PuTTY home web site is
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
If you want to send bug reports or feature requests, please read the
Feedback section of the web site before doing so. Sending one-line
reports saying `it doesn't work' will waste your time as much as
ours.
See the file LICENCE for the licence conditions.