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Gisle Vanem made curl build fine on DOS (and MingW) with djgpp, OpenSSL and his
Watt-32 stack.
-'make djgpp' in the root curl dir should build it fine.
+'make -f Makefile.dist djgpp' in the root curl dir should build it fine.
+Or enter 'lib' and do a 'make -f Makefile.dj clean all' to first delete
+'lib/curl_config.h' which is possibly from a previous incompatible Windows-build.
Note 1: djgpp 2.04 beta has a sscanf() bug so the URL parsing isn't
done properly. Use djgpp 2.03 until they fix it.
@@ -9,3 +11,7 @@ Note 1: djgpp 2.04 beta has a sscanf() bug so the URL parsing isn't
Note 2: Compile Watt-32 (and OpenSSL) with the same version of djgpp.
Otherwise things go wrong because things like FS-extensions and
errnos have been changed between releases.
+
+Note 3: Several 'USE_x' variables in 'common.dj' are on the 'USE_x ?= 0'
+ form (conditional variable assignment). So one can build like this:
+ c:\curl\lib> make -f makefile.dj USE_OPENSSL=1 USE_ZLIB=1 clean all