winbuild: Updated the VC++ make instructions following commit 11025613b9

* Added information regarding the February 2003 Platform SDK for VC6
* Updated the introduction to be similar to the IDE projects README
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Building with Visual C++, prerequises
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This document describes how to compile, build and install curl and libcurl
from sources using the Visual C++ build tool. To build with VC++, you will
of course have to first install VC++. The minimum required version of
VC is 6 (part of Visual Studio 6). However using a more recent version like
2008 (vc9) is strongly recommended.
VC is 6 (part of Visual Studio 6). However using a more recent version is
strongly recommended.
VC++ is also part of the Windows Platform SDK. You do not have to install
the full Visual Studio or Visual C++ if all you want is to build curl.
The Platform SDK can be fetched here, freely:
The latest Platform SDK can be downloaded freely from:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bb980924
If you are building with VC6 then you will also need the February 2003
Edition of the Platform SDK which can be downloaded from:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12261
If you wish to support zlib, openssl, ssh2, you will have to download
them separately and copy them to the deps directory as shown below: