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- PuTTY source code README
- ========================
- This is the README for the source code of PuTTY, a free Windows and
- Unix Telnet and SSH client.
- PuTTY is built using CMake <https://cmake.org/>. To compile in the
- simplest way (on any of Linux, Windows or Mac), the general method is
- to run these commands in the source directory:
- cmake .
- cmake --build .
- These commands will expect to find a usable compile toolchain on your
- path. So if you're building on Windows with MSVC, you'll need to make
- sure that the MSVC compiler (cl.exe) is on your path, by running one
- of the 'vcvars32.bat' setup scripts provided with the tools. Then the
- cmake commands above should work.
- To install in the simplest way on Linux or Mac:
- cmake --build . --target install
- On Unix, pterm would like to be setuid or setgid, as appropriate, to
- permit it to write records of user logins to /var/run/utmp and
- /var/log/wtmp. (Of course it will not use this privilege for
- anything else, and in particular it will drop all privileges before
- starting up complex subsystems like GTK.) The cmake install step
- doesn't attempt to add these privileges, so if you want user login
- recording to work, you should manually ch{own,grp} and chmod the
- pterm binary yourself after installation. If you don't do this,
- pterm will still work, but not update the user login databases.
- Documentation (in various formats including Windows Help and Unix
- `man' pages) is built from the Halibut (`.but') files in the `doc'
- subdirectory. If you aren't using one of our source snapshots,
- you'll need to do this yourself. Halibut can be found at
- <https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/halibut/>.
- The PuTTY home web site is
- https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
- If you want to send bug reports or feature requests, please read the
- Feedback section of the web site before doing so. Sending one-line
- reports saying `it doesn't work' will waste your time as much as
- ours.
- See the file LICENCE for the licence conditions.
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