How to compile Groestlcoin Core for Windows with Visual Studio 2017 community

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The following were tested on Windows 10 with Visual Studio 2017 community, some dependencies can be different in other windows versions

• Download Visual Studio 2017 community from: https://www.visualstudio.com/post-download-vs/?sku=community&clcid=0x409&telem=ga#
• Download https://github.com/Groestlcoin/Windows-libraries/releases/download/1.0/x86_x64_libs.rar
• Download https://github.com/Groestlcoin/Windows-libraries/releases/download/1.0/exe.7z
• Download https://github.com/Groestlcoin/Windows-libraries/releases/download/1.0/qt_libs.7z
• https://github.com/Groestlcoin/Windows-libraries/releases/download/1.0/qt_plugins.7z
• Download QT 5.7.1 from https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.7/5.7.1/qt-opensource-windows-x86-msvc2015_64-5.7.1.exe and install it under C:\Qt\Qt5.7.1
• Download Boost 1.63 from https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.63.0/boost_1_63_0.7z/download and install it under C:\boost_1_63_0
• Install Visual Studio 2017 with common tools for Visual C++ 2017 and Microsoft Foundation Classes for C++
• Start Visual Studio 2017
• In Team Explorer, open the Connect view.
• Select Clone under Local Git Repositories
  
• Replace the text "Enter the URL of a GIT repo to clone" with https://github.com/Groestlcoin/groestlcoin
• Chose C:\groestlcoin as path
• Check recursively clone submodules on
• Click clone
• Rightclick on groestlcoin and choose open command prompt
• cd C:\groestlcoin
• mkdir x86_libs
• mkdir x64_libs
• mkdir inc
• extract x86_x64_libs.7z to C:\groestlcoin\
• extract exe.7z to C:\groestlcoin\src\qt
• qt_plugins.7z to C:\groestlcoin\src\qt
• qt_libs.7z to C:\groestlcoin
• copy C:\Qt\Qt5.7.1\5.7\msvc2017_64\bin to C:\groestlcoin\src\qt
• Edit PATH system variable (on environment variables) and add C:\Qt\Qt5.7.1
• Add QT_PATH as system variable (on environment variables) and point it to C:\Qt\Qt5.7.1
• Open MSbuild command prompt
• cd C:\groestlcoin\
• cd inc
• mklink/J boost C:\boost_1_63_0\boost
• cd ..
• cd C:\groestlcoin\src\qt
• msbuild moc.proj
• exit
• copy C:\Qt\Qt5.7.1\5.7\msvc2017_64\include to C:\groestlcoin\inc
• copy C:\Qt\Qt5.7.1\5.7\msvc2017_64\include\QtCore to C:\groestlcoin\inc
• copy C:\Qt\Qt5.7.1\5.7\msvc2017_64\include\QtWidgets\QApplication to C:\groestlcoin\inc
• copy C:\Qt\Qt5.7.1\5.7\msvc2017_64\include\QtGui to C:\groestlcoin\inc
• mklink/J QtCore C:\Qt\Qt5.7.1\5.7\msvc2017_64\include\QtCore
• copy C:\Qt\Qt5.7.1\5.7\msvc2017_64\include\QtNetwork to C:\groestlcoin\inc
• change in stdafx.h #include #include <QtCore> to #include <QtCore/QtCore>
• copy C:\Qt\Qt5.7.1\5.7\msvc2017_64\lib to C:\groestlcoin\inc
• Close Visual Studio 2017 and double click C:\groestlcoin\groestlcoin.sln
• Select "R_St" configuration and one of platforms: x86 or x64
• build