Installation on Woe32 (WinNT/2000/XP, Win95/98/ME): - Requires MS Visual C/C++ 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0 or 7.0. Note that binaries created with MSVC 7.0 cannot be distributed: They depend on a closed-source library 'msvcr70.dll' which is not normally part of a Woe32 installation, therefore the distribution of such binaries - with or without msvcr70.dll - would be a violation of the GPL. This problem does not occur with MSVC 6.0 and earlier. - Cannot build in a separate directory. - Build instructions: Make sure that the MSVC4.0 or MSVC5.0 or MSVC6.0 or MSVC7.0 utilities ("cl" etc.) are found in PATH. In a typical MSVC6.0 installation, this can be achieved by running C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\bin\vcvars32.bat In a typical MSVC7.0 installation, it can be achieved by running C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat Decide which compilation model you will use: MFLAGS=-ML (the default) Single-threaded, statically linked - libc.lib MFLAGS=-MT Multi-threaded, statically linked - libcmt.lib MFLAGS=-MD Multi-threaded, dynamically linked - msvcrt.lib For shared library (DLL): nmake -f Makefile.msvc DLL=1 MFLAGS=-MD For static library: nmake -f Makefile.msvc MFLAGS=-MD If you want to build both the shared and static library, you have to unpack the gettext sources twice in different directories. Don't mix the two formats; you cannot use the autosprintf.h generated for the static library together with the shared library or vice versa. - Installation: Either: Copy autosprintf.h to your header file repository. Copy asprintf.lib to your library repository. If you built for shared library, also copy asprintf.dll into one of the directories listed in your PATH, or into the directory containing the executable which shall make use of autosprintf. Or: nmake -f Makefile.msvc DLL=1 MFLAGS=-MD install PREFIX=InstallBaseDirectory or nmake -f Makefile.msvc MFLAGS=-MD install PREFIX=InstallBaseDirectory