问题
I need to download and compile plink/pscp on my Windows.
Since I need specific version (0.69), I searched for the tag, and checked out to that commit.
In putty readme, they write that if I want to compile on windows, there is Visual studio solution:
Inside the windows/MSVC subdirectory are MS Visual Studio project files for doing GUI-based builds of the various PuTTY utilities.
These have been tested on Visual Studio 7 and 10.You should be able to build each PuTTY utility by loading the
corresponding .dsp file in Visual Studio. For example,
MSVC/putty/putty.dsp builds PuTTY itself, MSVC/plink/plink.dsp
builds Plink, and so on.
I dont have these directories, What am I missing ? Is there a prerequisite ?
The code is see is as https://github.com/github/putty
That directory is missing from there also..
Thanks
回答1:
The MSVC folder does not exist in the repository.
It is generated during build and stored in putty-src.zip package:
https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/putty-src.zip
Though building an old version of a software sounds like a bad idea.
回答2:
I quote response from putty staff regarding to my question:
"From the second paragraph of that same README in the root of the Git repository: "(If you have fetched the source from Git, you'll have to generate the Makefiles yourself -- see below.)" That includes the Visual Studio projects. Or, since you are compiling a release version, you could instead download putty-0.69.tar.gz from our website, which includes these generated files."
After better looking, I found the following link:
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/releases/
Credit goes to Jacob N.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45658776/cannot-compile-putty-plink-or-pscp-on-windows-due-to-missing-windows-msvc-subdi