Commit 905b63e4 authored by Steve Holme's avatar Steve Holme
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INSTALL: Updated MSVC 6 caveats

To use an up to date download link as well as remove duplicate
information.
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   MSVC 6 caveats
   --------------

   If you use MSVC 6 it is required that you use the February 2003 edition PSDK:
   http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/psdk-full.htm
   If you use MSVC 6 it is required that you use the February 2003 edition of
   the 'Platform SDK' which can be downloaded from:

   http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12261

   Building any software with MSVC 6 without having PSDK installed is just
   asking for trouble down the road once you have released it, you might notice
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   choice of static vs dynamic runtime and third party libraries. Anyone using
   software built in such way will at some point regret having done so.

   When someone uses MSVC 6 without PSDK he is using a compiler back from 1998.

   If the compiler has been updated with the installation of a service pack as
   those mentioned in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/194022 the compiler can be
   safely used to read source code, translate and make it object code.
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   header files and libraries with bugs and security issues which have already
   been addressed and fixed long time ago.

   In order to make use of the updated system headers and fixed libraries
   for MSVC 6, it is required that 'Platform SDK', PSDK from now onwards,
   is installed. The specific PSDK that must be installed for MSVC 6 is the
   February 2003 edition, which is the latest one supporting the MSVC 6 compiler,
   this PSDK is also known as 'Windows Server 2003 PSDK' and can be downloaded
   from http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/psdk-full.htm

   So, building curl and libcurl with MSVC 6 without PSDK is absolutely
   discouraged for the benefit of anyone using software built in such
   environment. And it will not be supported in any way, as we could just