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How To Compile Wget on Windows

Wget has native support for Windows execution, and compiling is relatively easy.  I've outlined the full set of tools that you need to compile Wget with Visual C++ 2005 Express.

Required Items

You will need the following:

• Microsoft Platform SDK
• Visual C++ 2005 Express
• OpenSSL - either my ZIP file here (openssl.098b.full.zip) or download the source from www.openssl.org and compile it.
• Wget source - either my ZIP file here (wget-1.10.2s.zip) or download the source from ftp.gnu.org (wget-1.10.2.tar.gz).

Help file compilation will also require:

• Active State Perl
• MakeInfo - Currently, the GNU TexInfo project's MakeInfo doesn't support making an RTF file to generate the help file. Christian Schenk of the MiKTeX project wrote an addition to an older version of MakeInfo that supports creating help files.  This file is available on Karl Heinz Marbaise's Texinfo Information Page (direct link: makeinfo.zip).  I've also copied the file here (makeinfo.zip).
• Microsoft HTML Help compiler.  It's not included  with Visual C++ 2005 Express, so download it here: Microsoft Help Workshop

If you are building OpenSSL from source, you will also need:

• Active State Perl
• MASM for Visual C++ 2005 Express

Installation

1. Install the Platform SDK.

When you install the Platform SDK, you only need to install the Windows Core SDK for your platform, most likely x86 at this time.  Make sure you select Register Environment Variables

2. Install Visual C++ Express 2005
3. Install OpenSSL to C:\OpenSSL
   1. Install pre-compiled ZIP file from above.
   
   - OR -
   
   2. Install and compile OpenSSL from source.  See the OpenSSL Install.W32 file for instructions.
4. Install the Microsoft HTML Help compiler.  Select the default install location, then add C:\Program Files\Help Workshop to your path.
5. Extract the MakeInfo.EXE file from MakeInfo.Zip.  Add it to a directory in your path.  A good directory is C:\Program Files\Help Workshop.
6. Extract the Wget source to a directory (C:\wget).
7. Open a Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt (Start | All Programs| Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition | Visual Studio Tools)
8. Change directories to your WGET source directory: cd c:\wget
9. At the command prompt, enter configure.BAT --MSVC
10. At the command prompt, enter nmake
11. Wget.EXE will be created in the c:\wget\src directory.

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