Turns out that PuTTY hasn't run successfully on legacy Windows since
0.66, in spite of an ongoing intention to keep it working. Among the
reasons for this is that CreateWindowExW simply fails with
ERROR_CALL_NOT_IMPLEMENTED: apparently Win95 and its ilk just didn't
have fully-Unicode windows as an option.
Fixed by resurrecting the previous code from the git history (in
particular, code removed by commit 67e5ceb9a8 was useful), and
including it as a runtime alternative.
One subtlety was that I found I had to name the A and W window classes
differently (by appending ".ansi" to the A one): apparently they
occupy the same namespace even though the names are in different
character sets, so if you somehow manage to register both classes,
they'll collide with each other without that tweak.
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.
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