Build Windows CI with native MSVC c++ compiler

[breznak]

as now we build with some mingw, MSVC is capable, available as OSS now, let's see if we can get it in Appveyor CI.
Would be better to build with native compiler.

EDIT:
MSVC on Win put off only after SWIG removal:
see
#55 (comment)

I suggest that we hold off on Visual Studio until after you get rid of Swig. The numenta documentation says that it will not work unless you install a very old compiler. I was not able to get the bindings to build under Visual Studio with C++11 although I have not tried since we removed capnproto. And I agree MingW is not really a viable build environment.

[breznak]

@dkeeney you are building with native MSVC, right? Could we easily use it in CI?

[breznak]

Given current broken Win CI, and planned c++17 move, this is a prerequisite. @dkeeney @chhenning if you have a windows machine, would any of you like to take on this task? Or submit your local "guide" to building on MSVC, I could try to do it though testing in Appveyor CI.

[dkeeney]

yes, I have a CMakeFile for building the C++ parts under Visual Studio. I am sure it would need to be modified to work with the repository but it can work as a start. You can find it in my repository https://github.com/dkeeney/nupic.core/tree/base This uses either hunter or VCpkg as a package manager but without boost or the other dependencies we will probably not need a package manager at all.

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[breznak]

Thanks, I'll try to use it as a template! So c++ ok, py not supported.. I saw your work, but don't want to introduce other package managers..will see how it goes w/o it

[breznak]

Windows platform support temporarily discontinued (#81) we'll reenable once again after successful transition to modern Windows environment: MSVC, -SWIG, ... the MingGW workaround was too problematic.

[breznak]

Reopening, still WIP