BUILD.WINDOWS: mention buildconf.bat for builds off git

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/winbuild/BUILD.WINDOWS.txt b/winbuild/BUILD.WINDOWS.txt
index 51674d772..7b0d5ba86 100644
--- a/winbuild/BUILD.WINDOWS.txt
+++ b/winbuild/BUILD.WINDOWS.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Building with Visual C++, prerequisites
 

    If you wish to support zlib, openssl, c-ares, ssh2, you will have to download

    them separately and copy them to the deps directory as shown below:

-   

+

    somedirectory\

     |_curl-src

     | |_winbuild

@@ -34,6 +34,13 @@ Building with Visual C++, prerequisites
    It is also possible to create the deps directory in some other random

    places and tell the Makefile its location using the WITH_DEVEL option.

 

+Building straight from git

+==========================

+

+ When you check out code git and build it, as opposed from a released source

+ code archive, you need to first run the "buildconf.bat" batch file (present

+ in the source code root directory) to set things up.

+

 Building with Visual C++

 ========================

 

@@ -47,12 +54,12 @@ Open a Visual Studio Command prompt or the SDK CMD shell.
      Everything is already pre-configured by calling one of the command

      prompt.

 

-Once you are in the console, go to the winbuild directory in the Curl 

+Once you are in the console, go to the winbuild directory in the Curl

 sources:

     cd curl-src\winbuild

 

 Then you can call nmake /f Makefile.vc with the desired options (see below).

-The builds will be in the top src directory, builds\ directory, in 

+The builds will be in the top src directory, builds\ directory, in

 a directory named using the options given to the nmake call.

 

 nmake /f Makefile.vc mode=<static or dll> <options>