Commit 0b8977ac authored by Steve Holme's avatar Steve Holme
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winbuild: Updated the VC++ make instructions following commit 11025613 

* Added information regarding the February 2003 Platform SDK for VC6
* Updated the introduction to be similar to the IDE projects README
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Building with Visual C++, prerequises

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   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: