From 0a33c971aa77b061e6eb2a8276d43477ebc1c2b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steve Holme <steve_holme@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 11:45:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] README: Added note about using Visual Studio projects out of
git repository
---
projects/README | 13 ++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/projects/README b/projects/README
index 824c928280..259e144964 100644
--- a/projects/README
+++ b/projects/README
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Dependencies
============
The projects files also support build configurations that require third
- party dependencies such as openssl and ssh2. If you wish to support these,
+ party dependencies such as OpenSSL and SSH2. If you wish to support these,
you will also need to download and compile those libraries as well.
To support compilation of these libraries using different versions of
@@ -99,6 +99,17 @@ Notes
<configuration> - The target configuration (For example: DLL Debug,
LIB Release - LIB OpenSSL)
+ If you are using the source code from the git repository, rather than a
+ release archive or nightly build, you will need to generate the project
+ files. Please run "generate -h" for usage details.
+
+ Should you wish to help out with some of the items on the TODO list, or
+ find bugs in the project files that need correcting, and would like to
+ submit updated files back then please note that, whilst the solution files
+ can be edited directly, the templates for the project files (which are
+ stored in the git repositoty) will need to be modified rather than the
+ generated project files that Visual Studio uses.
+
TODO
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