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| author | kdekker <kees.dekker@infor.com> | 2018-04-09 10:42:14 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2018-04-09 10:42:14 +0200 |
| commit | 73070e82423aa64b381fa4bf51ea7ad380c538fc (patch) | |
| tree | 2ee88149c7615512103770a6a9163e671c384157 /winbuild | |
| parent | 778235ce21648d83c73b084e5430e4474ccc52f9 (diff) | |
| download | curl-73070e82423aa64b381fa4bf51ea7ad380c538fc.tar.gz | |
winbuild: updated the documentation
The setenv command no longer exists and visual studio build prompts got
changed. Used Visual Studio 2015/2017 as reference.
Closes #2472
Diffstat (limited to 'winbuild')
| -rw-r--r-- | winbuild/BUILD.WINDOWS.txt | 26 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/winbuild/BUILD.WINDOWS.txt b/winbuild/BUILD.WINDOWS.txt index 98deed01e..76887dcda 100644 --- a/winbuild/BUILD.WINDOWS.txt +++ b/winbuild/BUILD.WINDOWS.txt @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Building with Visual C++, prerequisites The latest Platform SDK can be downloaded freely from:
- https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bb980924
+ https://developer.microsoft.com/nl-nl/windows/downloads/sdk-archive
If you are building with VC6 then you will also need the February 2003
Edition of the Platform SDK which can be downloaded from:
@@ -44,15 +44,25 @@ Building straight from git Building with Visual C++
========================
-Open a Visual Studio Command prompt or the SDK CMD shell.
+Open a Visual Studio Command prompt:
- Using the CMD Shell:
- choose the right environment via the setenv command (see setenv /?)
- for the full list of options. setenv /xp /x86 /release for example.
+ Using the 'Developer Command Prompt for VS <version>' menu entry:
+ where version is the Visual Studio version. The developer prompt at default
+ uses the x86 mode. It is required to call Vcvarsall.bat to setup the prompt
+ for the machine type you want, using Vcvarsall.bat.
+ This type of command prompt may not exist in all Visual Studio versions.
- Using the Visual Studio command prompt Shell:
- Everything is already pre-configured by calling one of the command
- prompt.
+ For more information, check:
+ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/tools/developer-command-prompt-for-vs
+ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/how-to-enable-a-64-bit-visual-cpp-toolset-on-the-command-line
+
+ Using the 'VS <version> <platform> <type> Command Prompt' menu entry:
+ where version is the Visual Studio version, platform is e.g. x64
+ and type Native of Cross platform build. This type of command prompt
+ may not exist in all Visual Studio versions.
+
+ See also:
+ https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f2ccy3wt.aspx
Once you are in the console, go to the winbuild directory in the Curl
sources:
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