We now support building with Visual Studio 2017 (VC++ 14.1)

(Support was added by commits 58998b2, 82cad14, 74102a8 and
88b1365.)

(cherry picked from commit d8efeb4)

Author: steve-m-hay

.git-rr-cache

@@ -63,10 +63,10 @@ that are also supported by perl's makefile.
 =back
 
 The Microsoft Visual C++ compilers are also now being given away free. They are
-available as "Visual C++ Toolkit 2003" or "Visual C++ 2005-2015 Express
-Edition" (and also as part of the ".NET Framework SDK") and are the same
-compilers that ship with "Visual C++ .NET 2003 Professional" or "Visual C++
-2005-2015 Professional" respectively.
+available as "Visual C++ Toolkit 2003" or "Visual C++ 2005-2017 Express [or
+Community, from 2017] Edition" (and also as part of the ".NET Framework SDK")
+and are the same compilers that ship with "Visual C++ .NET 2003 Professional"
+or "Visual C++ 2005-2017 Professional" respectively.
 
 This port can also be built on IA64/AMD64 using:
 
@@ -142,9 +142,9 @@ console already set up for your target architecture (x86-32 or x86-64 or IA64).
 With the newer compilers, you may also use the older batch files if you choose
 so.
 
-=item Microsoft Visual C++ 2008-2015 Express Edition
+=item Microsoft Visual C++ 2008-2017 Express/Community Edition
 
-These free versions of Visual C++ 2008-2015 Professional contain the same
+These free versions of Visual C++ 2008-2017 Professional contain the same
 compilers and linkers that ship with the full versions, and also contain
 everything necessary to build Perl, rather than requiring a separate download
 of the Windows SDK like previous versions did.
@@ -154,14 +154,15 @@ L<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en>.  (Providing ex
 links to these packages has proven a pointless task because the links keep on
 changing so often.)
 
-Install Visual C++ 2008-2015 Express, then setup your environment using, e.g.
+Install Visual C++ 2008-2017 Express/Community, then setup your environment
+using, e.g.
 
  C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat
 
 (assuming the default installation location was chosen).
 
 Perl should now build using the win32/Makefile.  You will need to edit that
-file to set CCTYPE to one of MSVC90FREE-MSVC140FREE first.
+file to set CCTYPE to one of MSVC90FREE-MSVC141FREE first.
 
 =item Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition
 
@@ -970,6 +971,6 @@ Win9x support was added in 5.6 (Benjamin Stuhl).
 
 Support for 64-bit Windows added in 5.8 (ActiveState Corp).
 
-Last updated: 19 February 2017
+Last updated: 16 June 2017
 
 =cut

README.win32

@@ -316,9 +316,16 @@ XXX List any platforms that this version of perl no longer compiles on.
 
 =over 4
 
-=item XXX-some-platform
+=item Windows
 
-XXX
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+Support for compiling perl on Windows using Microsoft Visual Studio 2017
+(containing Visual C++ 14.1) has been added.
+
+=back
 
 =back