Cannot compile PuTTY, Plink or Pscp on Windows due to missing Windows/MSVC subdirectory

Question

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

Answer 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

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Though building an old version of a software sounds like a bad idea.

Answer 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.