From: Steve Holme Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2014 17:48:48 +0000 (+0100) Subject: winbuild: Updated the VC++ make instructions following commit 11025613b9 X-Git-Tag: curl-7_37_0~186 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0b8977ac6f9e4136d001197b26cf01210ebee93a;p=thirdparty%2Fcurl.git winbuild: Updated the VC++ make instructions following commit 11025613b9 * Added information regarding the February 2003 Platform SDK for VC6 * Updated the introduction to be similar to the IDE projects README --- diff --git a/winbuild/BUILD.WINDOWS.txt b/winbuild/BUILD.WINDOWS.txt index 06d7b2fb3d..fce39d6033 100644 --- a/winbuild/BUILD.WINDOWS.txt +++ b/winbuild/BUILD.WINDOWS.txt @@ -1,18 +1,24 @@ Building with Visual C++, prerequises ===================================== + This document describes how to compile, build and install curl and libcurl from sources using the Visual C++ build tool. To build with VC++, you will of course have to first install VC++. The minimum required version of - VC is 6 (part of Visual Studio 6). However using a more recent version like - 2008 (vc9) is strongly recommended. + VC is 6 (part of Visual Studio 6). However using a more recent version is + strongly recommended. VC++ is also part of the Windows Platform SDK. You do not have to install the full Visual Studio or Visual C++ if all you want is to build curl. - The Platform SDK can be fetched here, freely: + The latest Platform SDK can be downloaded freely from: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bb980924 + If you are building with VC6 then you will also need the February 2003 + Edition of the Platform SDK which can be downloaded from: + + http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12261 + If you wish to support zlib, openssl, ssh2, you will have to download them separately and copy them to the deps directory as shown below: