Updated with new structure for Boost and OpenSSL

README.md

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 hMailServer
 ===========
 
-For details, please go to http://www.hmailserver.com
+hMailServer is an open source email server for Microsoft Windows.
 
-Compiling
-===========
+This page describes how to compile hMailServer. For more information about hMailServer, please go to http://www.hmailserver.com
+
+Compiling hMailServer
+====================
 
 Required software:
 
    * Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1
    * InnoSetup (to build installation program)
+   * Perl (ActiveState ActivePerl Communityedition 32 bit works fine)
+
+3rd party libraries
+===================
+
+Some 3rd party libraries which hMailServer relies on are large and updated frequently. Rather than including these large libraries into the hMailServer git repository, they have to be downloaded and built, currently manually. When you build hMailServer, hMailServer will use a system environment variable, named hMailServerLibs, to locate these libraries.
+
+Create an environment variable named hMailServerLibs pointing at a folder where you will store hMailServer libraries, such as C:\Dev\hMailLibs.
+
+Building OpenSSL
+----------------
+1. Download OpenSSL 1.0.1i from http://www.openssl.org/source/ and put it into %hMailServerLibs%\<OpenSSL-Version>.  
+   You should now have a folder named %hMailServerLibs%\<OpenSSL-version>, for example C:\Dev\hMailLibs\openssl-1.0.1i
+2. Open up a Visual Studio 2008 32bit Command prompt
+3. Change dir to %hMailServerLibs%\<OpenSSL-version>.
+4. Run Perl Configure no-asm VC-WIN32
+5. Run ms\do_ms
+6. Run nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak
+
+Building Boost
+--------------
+1. Download Boost 1.56.0 from http://www.boost.org/ and put it into %hMailServerLibs%\<Boost-Version>.  
+   You should now have a folder named %hMailServerLibs%\<Boost-Version>, for example C:\Dev\hMailLibs\boost_1_56_0
+2. Open a Command prompt
+3. Change dir to %hMailServerLibs%\<Boost-Version>.
+4. Run bootstrap.bat
+5. Run bjam.exe --toolset=msvc-9.0 --build-type=complete
+
 
-To build hMailServer, follow these steps:
+Building hMailServer
+--------------------
 
-1. Download the source code
+1. Download the source code from this Git repository.
 2. Compile the solution hmailserver\source\Server\hMailServer\hMailServer.sln.
    This will build the hMailServer server-part (hMailServer.exe)
 3. Compile the solution hmailserver\source\Tools\hMailServer Tools.sln.