For years, Git for Windows maintained a separate branch (vs/master) that came with Visual Studio project files so that users could easily clone that branch and build the source code in Visual Studio.
As of v2.29.0, this changed: Git for Windows (and Git!) now support building on Windows using CMake. This is how to use this in Visual Studio:
Open the worktree as a folder. Visual Studio 2019 and later will detect the CMake configuration automatically and set everything up for you, ready to build. You can then run the tests in t/ via a regular Git Bash.
A couple of notes:
- Visual Studio also has the option of opening
CMakeLists.txtdirectly; Using this option, Visual Studio will not find the source code, though, therefore theFile>Open>Folder...option is preferred. - The first time you open it, dependencies such as OpenSSL and cURL will be built as part of CMake's configuring phase. This will take a while.