[zeromq-dev] Should Add Windows Instructions to INSTALL or README?

[B. Scott Harper]

Simple question. My story of why it may be helpful is below:

I've been trying to build a static library on Windows, and the 4.1.4 source
gave me an error that it couldn't find 'if_nametoindex', which one response
suggested may be fixed in master (
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.zeromq.devel/27600).

So I downloaded the master repo, and when I loaded the vs2013 solution, VS
couldn't find .props files for all of the projects in the solution (these
files appeared to only exist in the vs2015 directory). I looked in the root
directory for a configuration file, but all the configuration files were
.sh files for Linux or Mac, not Windows.

It wasn't until I was searching the repo history to figure out when/why
they were removed that I found someone HAD added a "configure.bat" file in
the msvc base directory, just not where all the OTHER configuration files
were.

This setup is a bit confusing, and I feel like it wouldn't hurt to throw in
a couple sentences for building on Windows.

Cheers,
Scott
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