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| author | Jacob Nevins <jacobn@chiark.greenend.org.uk> | 2017-02-17 02:47:03 +0300 |
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| committer | Jacob Nevins <jacobn@chiark.greenend.org.uk> | 2017-02-17 02:47:03 +0300 |
| commit | 2e5212fb41e7e1851aed802e76dfe3e9529bb9ad (patch) | |
| tree | d56577007b807f0a2438ed21233ba373a724fde5 /README | |
| parent | 808aa643e67986c22c17d5f2ef8cae52e64a31ee (diff) | |
Document VS2015 impact on very old Windows.
(In a XXX-REVIEW-BEFORE-RELEASE form.)
Also, note the effect of compilation with different Visual Studio
versions on Windows version compatibility in the source README, for the
sake of having it written down somewhere.
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ For building on Windows: 7 (2003) and Visual Studio 14 (2015), so our guess is that it will probably build with versions in between those as well. + (The binaries from Visual Studio 14 are only compatible with + Windows XP and up. Binaries from Visual Studio 7 ought to work + with anything from Windows 95 onward.) + - Inside the windows/MSVC subdirectory are MS Visual Studio project files for doing GUI-based builds of the various PuTTY utilities. These have been tested on Visual Studio 7 and 10. @@ -53,7 +57,7 @@ For building on Windows: - Inside the windows/DEVCPP subdirectory are Dev-C++ project files for doing GUI-based builds of the various PuTTY utilities. -The PuTTY team actively use Makefile.vc (with VC7) and Makefile.mgw +The PuTTY team actively use Makefile.vc (with VC7/10) and Makefile.mgw (with mingw32), so we'll probably notice problems with those toolchains fairly quickly. Please report any problems with the other toolchains mentioned above. |