What is it?
===========

There are two archives for MS Windows 32 bit installation (MS Windows
NT 4.0 and later--NOT Windows 9x-Windows ME), an executable installer
and a ZIP archive of all files.  The installer will likely be favored
by end users and the ZIP archive for program authors bundling Hamlib
with their program.


W32 executable installer
==========================

The W32 installer provides a GUI to select a choice of DLLs only, DLLs
with programs, DLLs with  development files, or all files and the
installation directory for Hamlib.  In the future it may provide an
option to edit the PATH and removal of Hamlib.


W32 binary ZIP archive
========================

The ZIP archive contains the Hamlib shared libraries compiled as DLL
files for W32 as well as the Hamlib utilities compiled as W32
executables.  Current information is found in the README.w32-bin.txt
file included in the archive.


Installation
============

Installer
---------

Run the hamlib-w32-*.exe and follow the on-screen prompts and set PATH
environment variable as detailed in README.w32-bin.txt.

ZIP archive
-----------

Installation consists of uzipping the archive in a convenient location
(C:\Program Files is a reasonable choice) on your W32 system (MS
Windows NT 4.0 and later--NOT Windows 9x-Windows ME) and setting the PATH
environment variable as detailed in README.w32-bin.txt.

It should be possible to have multiple versions of Hamlib installed at
once. Simply edit the PATH to include the version you wish to use.


Usage
=====

These DLLs should work with any W32 program built against a prior
Hamlib-1.2.x version without needing to be recompiled.  This should
allow testing by editing the PATH environment variable to the installed
snapshot version and then (re)starting the program.

As the W32 version of Fldigi includes a statically compiled (included
in the Fldigi executable) version of Hamlib-1.2.12, an installation of
this archive will be ignored by Fldigi.  Hopefully, a future version of
Fldigi will be made available that uses the Hamlib shared libraries so
that it can be used with later versions of Hamlib on W32.


Documentation
=============

HTML copies of the Unix manual pages for the included Hamlib utilities
and a draft of the Hamlib manual are included in the doc/ directory of
the archive.  Hamlib API information may be found at
http://www.hamlib.org


Have fun and please report bugs to the
hamlib-developer@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list.

73, Nate, N0NB