MSVC: Remove Visual Studio project files and update INSTALL-MSVC.txt.

CMake is now the preferred build file generator when building
with MSVC.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 25 deletions

diff --git a/windows/INSTALL-MSVC.txt b/windows/INSTALL-MSVC.txt
index 2fdd1e7b..d9574388 100644
--- a/windows/INSTALL-MSVC.txt
+++ b/windows/INSTALL-MSVC.txt
@@ -5,41 +5,28 @@ Building XZ Utils with Microsoft Visual Studio
 Introduction
 ------------
 
+    liblzma got MSVC support in XZ Utils 5.2.0, and the xz and xzdec
+    command line tools in XZ Utils 5.6.0.
+
+        Note: xz and xzdec depend on the the included GNU getopt
+        which is licensed under the GNU LGPLv2.1.
+
     MSVC 2013 update 2 and later have enough C99 support to build
     liblzma from XZ Utils 5.2.0 and later without modifications.
-    Older MSVC versions would require a large number of changes to
-    the XZ Utils code and thus the old MSVC versions aren't supported.
 
-    As of 2015-06-19, some work has been done to get xz.exe and other
-    command line tools built with MSVC, but it's not complete enough
-    to be included in XZ Utils.
+    Visual Studio 2015 or later is required to build the command line
+    tools.
 
 
 Building
 --------
 
     It is recommended to use CMake to generate build files for MSVC.
-    The project files in vs201x directories will be removed in the
-    future (5.4.x releases will include them still).
-
-    Descriptions of the files in the vs201x directories:
-
-        config.h              liblzma configuration #defines for MSVC.
-        liblzma.vcxproj       This builds static liblzma.
-        liblzma_dll.vcxproj   This builds liblzma.dll.
-        xz_win.sln            Solution using the above project files.
-
-    The projects have x86 and x86-64 platform configurations, as well
-    as a Debug, Release, and ReleaseMT configuration -- MT is the
-    compiler switch to link to the CRT statically, so it will not
-    have any other DLL dependencies.
-
-    The VS2017 project files don't set <WindowsTargetPlatformVersion>.
-    This means that you may need to either install Windows SDK 8.1 or
-    you may need to set the target platform version before building.
+    Visual Studio project files are no longer provided (XZ Utils 5.4.x
+    were the last versions to include the project files).
 
-    Currently no test programs are built or run under MSVC from the
-    project files. CMake-based builds include tests too.
+    CMake-based build includes tests for liblzma but not for the
+    command line tools.
 
 
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