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How to build for Windows
Billy O'Neal edited this page May 20, 2019
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Setup Git
If you use PowerShell, we recommend installing Posh-Git (here is how).
If you use cmd.exe, open the Developer Command Prompt for VS2017 (here is how)
git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/cpprestsdk.git
We recommend using CMake and Vcpkg to build from source on Windows.
First, install the dependencies for the platform you are interested in:
vcpkg install --triplet x64-windows zlib openssl boost-system boost-date-time boost-regex boost-interprocess websocketpp brotli
Then, configure CMake against the Release\CMakeLists.txt
file in the normal way while following the vcpkg instructions (Note: If you use the cmake-gui.exe
tool, make sure to select the "Cross-compiling" option and choose the Vcpkg toolchain):
cpprestsdk> mkdir build.x64v141
cpprestsdk> cd build.x64v141
cpprestsdk/build.x64v141> cmake ../Release -A x64 -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=/path/to/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake
You can either run cmake --build . --config Release
or open the generated solution file in Visual Studio. The built binaries will be in Binaries\Release
or Binaries\Debug
depending on the configuration you build with.