Unverified Commit 73070e82 authored by Kees Dekker's avatar Kees Dekker Committed by Daniel Stenberg
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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
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Henrik S. Gaßmann <henrik@gassmann.onl>

Jiří Malák <malak.jiri@gmail.com>

Nick Zitzmann <nickzman@gmail.com>

Kees Dekker <kees.dekker@infor.com>

winbuild/BUILD.WINDOWS.txt

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   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:
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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: