From: Jay Satiro Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2025 07:50:15 +0000 (-0400) Subject: winbuild: add the deprecation warning to the README X-Git-Tag: curl-8_14_0~354 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=023cc8d5954bea925aa2b51203ff628f62934823;p=thirdparty%2Fcurl.git winbuild: add the deprecation warning to the README - Mention in README.md and INSTALL-CMAKE.md that the winbuild build system is going to be removed in September 2025. Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/16957 --- diff --git a/docs/INSTALL-CMAKE.md b/docs/INSTALL-CMAKE.md index 850937aa15..afc0a758ff 100644 --- a/docs/INSTALL-CMAKE.md +++ b/docs/INSTALL-CMAKE.md @@ -511,8 +511,9 @@ and therefore ignore the value of `CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE`. # Migrating from winbuild builds -We recommend CMake to build curl with MSVC. The winbuild build method is -deprecated and may be dropped in a future release. +We recommend CMake to build curl with MSVC. The winbuild build system is +deprecated and is going to be removed in September 2025 in favor of the CMake +build system. In CMake you can customize the path of dependencies by passing the absolute header path and the full path of the library via `*_INCLUDE_DIR` and diff --git a/winbuild/README.md b/winbuild/README.md index e20598879a..3667587a0d 100644 --- a/winbuild/README.md +++ b/winbuild/README.md @@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, , et al. SPDX-License-Identifier: curl --> +# Deprecation warning + + This winbuild build system is deprecated and is going to be removed in + September 2025 in favor of the CMake build system. + + Please see docs/INSTALL-CMAKE.md : "Migrating from winbuild builds" + # Building curl with Visual C++ This document describes how to compile, build and install curl and libcurl