winbuild: add the deprecation warning to the README

- Mention in README.md and INSTALL-CMAKE.md that the winbuild build
  system is going to be removed in September 2025.

Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/16957
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Jay Satiro 2025-04-04 03:50:15 -04:00
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@ -511,8 +511,9 @@ and therefore ignore the value of `CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE`.
# Migrating from winbuild builds
We recommend CMake to build curl with MSVC. The winbuild build method is
deprecated and may be dropped in a future release.
We recommend CMake to build curl with MSVC. The winbuild build system is
deprecated and is going to be removed in September 2025 in favor of the CMake
build system.
In CMake you can customize the path of dependencies by passing the absolute
header path and the full path of the library via `*_INCLUDE_DIR` and

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@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
-->
# Deprecation warning
This winbuild build system is deprecated and is going to be removed in
September 2025 in favor of the CMake build system.
Please see docs/INSTALL-CMAKE.md : "Migrating from winbuild builds"
# Building curl with Visual C++
This document describes how to compile, build and install curl and libcurl