Building with VS2010 Express
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Install it. All of the default options are fine. It will tick through quite a few steps.
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Install Github for Windows
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Clone in Windows from Github.
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Open project directory from Github for Windows.
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Double-click
putty.sln, the PuTTY Microsoft Visual Studio Solution. -
Right click "putty" in the tree on the left, and select "Start new instance" from the "Debug" submenu.
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Tada!
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Use "quick find" (ctrl+f) in "Entire Solution" to search for "Basic options":
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Open the result by double-clicking on it in the Find Results pane
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Change the string however you feel, and run again (as per step 7) to see the result
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Commit.
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Change the whitespace settings so you can see what you're doing. PuTTY expects you to use a "tab size" of 8, and an "indent size" of 4. For this reason, it's probably better to set it not to use tabs.
