wget: Portability

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1 8.7 Portability
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1 Like all GNU software, Wget works on the GNU system.  However, since it
1 uses GNU Autoconf for building and configuring, and mostly avoids using
1 “special” features of any particular Unix, it should compile (and work)
1 on all common Unix flavors.
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1    Various Wget versions have been compiled and tested under many kinds
1 of Unix systems, including GNU/Linux, Solaris, SunOS 4.x, Mac OS X, OSF
1 (aka Digital Unix or Tru64), Ultrix, *BSD, IRIX, AIX, and others.  Some
1 of those systems are no longer in widespread use and may not be able to
1 support recent versions of Wget.  If Wget fails to compile on your
1 system, we would like to know about it.
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1    Thanks to kind contributors, this version of Wget compiles and works
1 on 32-bit Microsoft Windows platforms.  It has been compiled
1 successfully using MS Visual C++ 6.0, Watcom, Borland C, and GCC
1 compilers.  Naturally, it is crippled of some features available on
1 Unix, but it should work as a substitute for people stuck with Windows.
1 Note that Windows-specific portions of Wget are not guaranteed to be
1 supported in the future, although this has been the case in practice for
1 many years now.  All questions and problems in Windows usage should be
1 reported to Wget mailing list at <wget@sunsite.dk> where the volunteers
1 who maintain the Windows-related features might look at them.
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1    Support for building on MS-DOS via DJGPP has been contributed by
1 Gisle Vanem; a port to VMS is maintained by Steven Schweda, and is
1 available at <https://antinode.info/dec/sw/wget.html>.
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