Building libevent on Windows XP

Here are some steps which resulted in a successful build of libevent for Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and Microsoft Visual Studio 8 (2005):

• Installed CMake 3.4.3 for 32-bit Windows
  
• Cloned libevent (commit 49bd79047bc9aca3ca43fb79eac3901e7805c0df):
  
  • cd \path\to
    
  • git clone https://github.com/libevent/libevent libevent
    
• Start menu button
  • Programs
    • Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
      • Visual Studio Tools
        • Visual Studio 2006 Command Prompt
          
• cd \path\to\libevent
  
• Edited the CMakeLists.txt file:
  
  • EVENT__BUILD_SHARED_LIBRARIES from OFF to ON
    
  • EVENT__DISABLE_OPENSSL from OFF to ON
    
  • EVENT__DISABLE_BENCHMARK from OFF to ON
    
  • EVENT__DISABLE_TESTS from OFF to ON
    
  • EVENT__DISABLE_REGRESS from OFF to ON
    
  • EVENT__DISABLE_SAMPLES from OFF to ON
    
• mkdir build
  
• cd build
  
• cmake -G "NMake Makefiles" ..
  
• nmake
• dir bin