build/appveyor/README.md

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# Appveyor Build

Appveyor is capable of building MSVC 2010 through 2015 as well as
having the latest MSYS2/MinGW 64-bit environment.  It has many versions
of boost and python installed as well.  See what appveyor has
[installed on build workers](https://www.appveyor.com/docs/installed-software/).

We run a matrix build on Appveyor and build the following combinations:

* MinGW x64 (gcc 6.3.0)
* MSVC 2010 x86, an older boost, an older python
* MSVC 2015 x86/x64, the latest boost, the latest python
* MSYS2 x64 (gcc 6.3.0) - this is a work in progress

The Appveyor script takes the first four letters from the PROFILE specified in
the environment stanza and runs these scripts in order:

????-appveyor-install.bat will install third party libraries and set up the environment
????-appveyor-build.bat will build with cmake
????-appveyor-test.bat will run ctest