-*- text -*-You can configure the Windows port of Wget by running configure.bat (inthe main Wget directory).  You can run it with no arguments to see thelist of possible options.  Run it with the option corresponding to thecompiler you intend to use to build Wget and follow the (brief)instructions printed on the screen.  The instructions bellow are forbuilding Wget with Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC); you may need to makeappropriate substitutions for your compiler and build environment; currently wget can be built at least with Visual Studio/.Net, free Borland or Watcom compilers, and the free cygnus and mingw environments.To build Wget with MSVC run configure.bat (in the main Wget directory)with the argument --msvc, and then run nmake.  At a certain point in timeWget exposed some compiler bugs in MSVC 5.0; later Wget started to expose (at least http.c, retr.c) some other compiler bugs in MSVC 6.0 SP6 (cl.exe version 12) which could/can be worked around by compiling completely without optimization or at least partially (by using #pragma optimize("g",on) and "off" around offending functions).However, read the rest of this document before continuing.For MSVC the current default is to build Wget with SSL support.  For thisto work, you will need to have OpenSSL installed.  First, get OpenSSL(http://www.openssl.org), compile it and install the relevant headers andlibraries where your compiler can find them; currently this could mean(presuming default installation directories for MSVC 6.0) copy (from thecompiled OpenSSL directory) the whole inc32\openssl directory and itscontents to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Include\openssl",and from out32dll (in the OpenSSL directory) the two needed libraries(libeay32.lib and ssleay32.lib) to"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\lib".  These locationsaren't exactly the best but will get you started if you don't know whereto place these headers and libraries, you should find similar paths for later compiler versions. Usually at run-time some OpenSSLlibraries (currently ssleay32.dll and libeay32.dll) will need to beavailable in your environment PATH.If you don't want to/can't compile Wget with OpenSSL comment SSL relatedlines in windows\Makefile.src; then follow the normal instructions(configure.bat and so on).If you want to build the help file you will need a copy of makeinfo toconvert wget.texi to rtf and html.  I've made a copy available at<URL:ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/wget/makeinfo.zip>.  This copy ofmakeinfo is from the miktxt 1.10 archive available from ctan.  You alsowill need perl 5, one possibility is ActivePerl (currently free) from<URL:http://www.activestate.com>; you need to locate the download andinstall instructions for the current version available (since thepackages and installation instructions change from time to time).Windows contributors:* Darko Budor <dbudor@zesoi.fer.hr> -- the initial work on the Windows  port;* Tim Charron <tcharron@interlog.com> -- additional cleanup and  contribution of the Watcom makefile;* John Burden <john@futuresguide.com> -- cleanup of the VC++ makefile  to get a clean build with VC++ 5.0 on Windows 95;* Douglas E. Wegscheid -- maintains configure.bat and various Windows  makefiles.* Herold Heiko -- numerous build reports and fixes.* Gisle Vanem -- many Windows-related improvements to the source and  the build system.