Do the following in order to generate Visual Studio 2017 projects to target the x86 platform:
- Open a command prompt and go to the build directory in the source code root folder.
- Execute the following CMake command:
cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017" .. -DCMAKE_USE_WINSSL=ON -DCURL_WINDOWS_SSPI=ON -DCURL_LIBRARY=libcurl -DCURL_INCLUDE_DIR=..libscurlinclude -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF -DBUILD_CURL_EXE=OFF -DUSE_MANUAL=OFF
- After completion, the Visual Studio solution can be found at build/cppchallenger.sln.
If you want to target the x64 platform instead, use the generator called "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64". Visual Studio 2017 15.4 supports both filesystem (as an experimental library) and std::optional. If you use a previous version, or just want to use the Boost libraries instead, you can generate the projects using the following command, after you properly install Boost:
cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017" .. -DCMAKE_USE_WINSSL=ON -DCURL_WINDOWS_SSPI=ON -DCURL_LIBRARY=libcurl -DCURL_INCLUDE_DIR=..libscurlinclude -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF -DBUILD_CURL_EXE=OFF -DUSE_MANUAL=OFF -DBOOST_FILESYSTEM=ON -DBOOST_OPTIONAL=ON -DBOOST_INCLUDE_DIR=<path_to_headers> -DBOOST_LIB_DIR=<path_to_libs>
Make sure that the paths to the headers and static library files do not include trailing backslashes (i.e. ).