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@@ -56,11 +56,12 @@ Building
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The instructions below use `vcpkg` to install the dependencies.
-- Clone `vcpkg` from the [github repository](https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg) and install as per the instructions in the main README.md.
-- Install the required packages (replace x64 with x86 as required):
+- Install [`vcpkg`](https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg).
+- Install the required packages (replace x64 with x86 as required). The list of required packages can be found in the `build_msvc\vcpkg-packages.txt` file. The PowerShell command below will work if run from the repository root directory and `vcpkg` is in the path. Alternatively the contents of the packages text file can be pasted in place of the `Get-Content` cmdlet.
```
- PS >.\vcpkg install --triplet x64-windows-static boost-filesystem boost-signals2 boost-test libevent openssl zeromq berkeleydb rapidcheck double-conversion
+PS >.\vcpkg install --triplet x64-windows-static $(Get-Content -Path build_msvc\vcpkg-packages.txt).split()
+
```
- Use Python to generate *.vcxproj from Makefile
@@ -74,13 +75,13 @@ The instructions below use `vcpkg` to install the dependencies.
- Build with Visual Studio 2017 or msbuild.
```
-msbuild /m bitcoin.sln /p:Platform=x64 /p:Configuration=Release /t:build
+msbuild /m bitcoin.sln /p:Platform=x64 /p:Configuration=Release /p:PlatformToolset=v141 /t:build
```
- Build with Visual Studio 2019 or msbuild.
```
-msbuild /m bitcoin.sln /p:Platform=x64 /p:Configuration=Release /p:PlatformToolset=v142 /t:build
+msbuild /m bitcoin.sln /p:Platform=x64 /p:Configuration=Release /t:build
```
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