upgraded project using Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition and confi…

…rmed build is working

README.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ This repo is a windows port of the common unix opengl application glxgears.
 
 Glxgears is a common tool for testing the OpenGL rendering pipeline and gives a simple fps benchmark from the gears animation.
 
-This particular port is compiled in Visual Studio 2015 and it should be very easy to upgrade this project for newer versions of visual studio (2013/2014+).
+This particular port is compiled in Visual Studio 2017 and it should be very easy to upgrade this project for newer versions of visual studio (2013/2014+).
 
 Unfortunately this tool is now very dated - it makes use of the old style OpenGL fixed rendering pipeline which has been deprecated for a long time (https://www.opengl.org/wiki/Fixed_Function_Pipeline).
 

glxgears/glxgears.vcxproj

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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-<Project DefaultTargets="Build" ToolsVersion="14.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
+<Project DefaultTargets="Build" ToolsVersion="15.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
   <ItemGroup Label="ProjectConfigurations">
     <ProjectConfiguration Include="Debug|Win32">
       <Configuration>Debug</Configuration>
@@ -18,13 +18,13 @@
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     <UseDebugLibraries>true</UseDebugLibraries>
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     <ConfigurationType>Application</ConfigurationType>
     <UseDebugLibraries>false</UseDebugLibraries>
-    <PlatformToolset>v140</PlatformToolset>
+    <PlatformToolset>v141</PlatformToolset>
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   </PropertyGroup>