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

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/winbuild/BUILD.WINDOWS.txt b/winbuild/BUILD.WINDOWS.txt
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--- a/winbuild/BUILD.WINDOWS.txt
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@@ -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: