- 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
# 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
SPDX-License-Identifier: curl\r
-->\r
\r
+# Deprecation warning\r
+\r
+ This winbuild build system is deprecated and is going to be removed in\r
+ September 2025 in favor of the CMake build system.\r
+\r
+ Please see docs/INSTALL-CMAKE.md : "Migrating from winbuild builds"\r
+\r
# Building curl with Visual C++\r
\r
This document describes how to compile, build and install curl and libcurl\r