Windows Build Problems with an Awkward Solution - changed header files in Juce source code

Windows
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​I got the basic hello world gui example up and running in anticipation of using the projucer on windows.

​I did get it to build but I had to work through a lot of errors to do it.

​Basically  VS2013 was pointing to  'windows kits 8.1' and ended up not being able to find a header file that doesn't exist in that version

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​To get it to work I had to:

Add include directories to a previous verison  - 8.0 - include, include/shared, and include/nm

​Add a lib directory /lib/nm

​And the most awkward part - I had to change the include of <windows.h> to <Windows.h> and <winsock2.h> to <WinSock2.h>

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We build on all versions of Windows all the time and never had any problems like that.. Which version of Windows is this?

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It is windows 7.  I'm using visual studio 2013 and have installed then uninstalled vs2015.

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Could be that uninstalling VS2015 took out some important SDK files? I've occasionally seen nasty situations where the order of installing/uninstalling/reinstalling VS versions can mess up its SDKs.