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-rw-r--r--winbuild/BUILD.WINDOWS.txt13
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>