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    2 
    3 You can configure the Windows port of Wget by running configure.bat (in
    4 the main Wget directory).  You can run it with no arguments to see the
    5 list of possible options.  Run it with the option corresponding to the
    6 compiler you intend to use to build Wget and follow the (brief)
    7 instructions printed on the screen.  The instructions bellow are for
    8 building Wget with Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC); you may need to make
    9 appropriate substitutions for your compiler and build environment; 
   10 currently wget can be built at least with Visual Studio/.Net, the free 
   11 Borland compiler, and the free mingw environment.  The instructions do
   12 *not* apply to the Cygwin environment, on which Wget is built with the
   13 procedure described in the INSTALL file in the top-level directory.
   14 
   15 To build Wget with MSVC run configure.bat (in the main Wget directory)
   16 with the argument --msvc, and then run nmake.  At a certain point in time
   17 Wget exposed some compiler bugs in MSVC 5.0; later Wget started to 
   18 expose (at least http.c, retr.c) some other compiler bugs in MSVC 6.0 
   19 SP6 (cl.exe version 12) which could/can be worked around by compiling 
   20 completely without optimization or at least partially (by using 
   21 #pragma optimize("g",on) and "off" around offending functions).
   22 However, read the rest of this document before continuing.
   23 
   24 For MSVC the current default is to build Wget with SSL support.  For this
   25 to work, you will need to have OpenSSL installed.  First, get OpenSSL
   26 (http://www.openssl.org), compile it and install the relevant headers and
   27 libraries where your compiler can find them; currently this could mean
   28 (presuming default installation directories for MSVC 6.0) copy (from the
   29 compiled OpenSSL directory) the whole inc32\openssl directory and its
   30 contents to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Include\openssl",
   31 and from out32dll (in the OpenSSL directory) the two needed libraries
   32 (libeay32.lib and ssleay32.lib) to
   33 "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\lib".  These locations
   34 aren't exactly the best but will get you started if you don't know where
   35 to place these headers and libraries, you should find similar paths for 
   36 later compiler versions. Usually at run-time some OpenSSL
   37 libraries (currently ssleay32.dll and libeay32.dll) will need to be
   38 available in your environment PATH.
   39 
   40 If you don't want to/can't compile Wget with OpenSSL comment SSL related
   41 lines in windows\Makefile.src; then follow the normal instructions
   42 (configure.bat and so on).
   43 
   44 If you want to build the help file you will need a copy of makeinfo to
   45 convert wget.texi to rtf and html.  I've made a copy available at
   46 <URL:ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/wget/makeinfo.zip>.  This copy of
   47 makeinfo is from the miktxt 1.10 archive available from ctan.  You also
   48 will need perl 5, one possibility is ActivePerl (currently free) from
   49 <URL:http://www.activestate.com>; you need to locate the download and
   50 install instructions for the current version available (since the
   51 packages and installation instructions change from time to time).
   52 
   53 Windows contributors:
   54 
   55 * Darko Budor <dbudor@zesoi.fer.hr> -- the initial work on the Windows
   56   port;
   57 
   58 * Tim Charron <tcharron@interlog.com> -- additional cleanup and
   59   contribution of the (now retired) Watcom makefile;
   60 
   61 * John Burden <john@futuresguide.com> -- cleanup of the VC++ makefile
   62   to get a clean build with VC++ 5.0 on Windows 95;
   63 
   64 * Douglas E. Wegscheid -- maintains configure.bat and various Windows
   65   makefiles.
   66 
   67 * Herold Heiko -- numerous build reports and fixes.
   68 
   69 * Gisle Vanem -- many Windows-related improvements to the source and
   70   the build system.