From: Václav Slavík <vslavik@fastmail.fm>
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 22:28:28 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: How to use MSLU with MSVC/nmake
X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/commitdiff_plain/26a0063198e7efb9a542e51b5fab6beb3b414453

How to use MSLU with MSVC/nmake


git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk@16300 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775
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diff --git a/docs/msw/install.txt b/docs/msw/install.txt
index 948b3af7c0..b7a7c3e32f 100644
--- a/docs/msw/install.txt
+++ b/docs/msw/install.txt
@@ -136,7 +136,16 @@ Makefile notes:
   doesn't occur when using project files to build wxWindows.
 
   To build Unicode versions of the libraries, add UNICODE=1
-  to the nmake invocation ( default is UNICODE=0 ).
+  to the nmake invocation ( default is UNICODE=0 ). If you want to
+  be able to use Unicode version on Windows9x, you will need 
+  MSLU (Microsoft Layer for Unicode) runtime DLL and import lib.
+  The former can be downloaded from Microsoft, the latter is part
+  of the latest Platform SDK from Microsoft (see msdn.microsoft.com 
+  for details). An alternative implementation of import library can
+  be downloaded from http://libunicows.sourceforge.net - unlike the
+  official one, this one works with other compilers and does not
+  require 300+ MB Platform SDK update. Add MSLU=1 to the nmake
+  invocation to enable MSLU.
 
   Note that the wxWindows core library allows you to have debug
   and release libraries available simultaneously, by compiling the