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How to generate projects for Visual Studio 2017

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=..\libs\curl\include -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 ...

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