Building with Visual C++, prerequises\r
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This document describes how to compile, build and install curl and libcurl\r
from sources using the Visual C++ build tool. To build with VC++, you will\r
of course have to first install VC++. The minimum required version of\r
- VC is 6 (part of Visual Studio 6). However using a more recent version like\r
- 2008 (vc9) is strongly recommended.\r
+ VC is 6 (part of Visual Studio 6). However using a more recent version is\r
+ strongly recommended.\r
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VC++ is also part of the Windows Platform SDK. You do not have to install\r
the full Visual Studio or Visual C++ if all you want is to build curl.\r
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- The Platform SDK can be fetched here, freely:\r
+ The latest Platform SDK can be downloaded freely from:\r
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bb980924\r
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+ If you are building with VC6 then you will also need the February 2003\r
+ Edition of the Platform SDK which can be downloaded from:\r
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+ http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12261\r
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If you wish to support zlib, openssl, ssh2, you will have to download\r
them separately and copy them to the deps directory as shown below:\r
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