Update dist to include VS files and update docs

Author: oschwald

Makefile.am

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SUBDIRS = \
   bin     \
   t
 
-EXTRA_DIST = doc t Changes.md LICENSE NOTICE README.md
+EXTRA_DIST = doc t Changes.md LICENSE NOTICE README.md projects/VS12 projects/VS12-tests
 dist-hook:
 	dev-bin/make-man-pages.pl $(distdir)
 	find $(distdir) -name '.git*' | xargs rm -fr

README.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ See http://dev.maxmind.com/ for more details about MaxMind's GeoIP2 products.
 
 This library is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.
 
-# Installing from a Tarball
+# Building and installing from a Tarball
 
 This code is known to work with GCC 4.4+ and clang 3.2+. It should also work
 on other compilers that supports C99, POSIX 2011.11, and the `-fms-extensions
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ can do this by running the following commands:
     $ sudo sh -c "echo /usr/local/lib  >> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/local.conf"
     $ ldconfig
 
-# Installing from the Git Repository
+# Building from the Git Repository
 
 To install from Git, you will need automake, autoconf, and libtool installed
 in addition to make and a compiler.
@@ -59,6 +59,12 @@ You can clone this repository and build it by running:
 After cloning, run `./bootstrap` from the `libmaxminddb directory and then
 follow the instructions for installing from a tarball as described above.
 
+# Building with Visual Studio 2013+
+
+We provide a Visual Studio solution in `projects\VS12`. This can be used to
+build both the the library and the tests. Please see the `README.md` file in
+the same directory for more information.
+
 # Installing via Homebrew (on OS X)
 
 If you are on OS X and you have homebrew (see http://brew.sh/) you can install

projects/VS12/README projects/VS12/README.mdprojects/VS12/README renamed to projects/VS12/README.md

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-Project Notes
+# Project Notes
 
 DO NOT modify project settings for each configuration and/or platform
 on a per-project basis. Use property sheets to set shared configuration
 properties. The rule of thumb - if you set same value for the same
 property in more than one configuration or platform, you did it wrong.
 
-libmaxminddb.props
+## libmaxminddb.props
 
 This is the base property sheet for libMaxMindDB project. It contains
 settings that are shared between all configurations, such as compiler
@@ -15,21 +15,21 @@ In order to minimize the number of property sheet files, this propery
 sheet also contains settings for Win32 and Debug configurations, which
 are overridden by the x64 and Release property sheets described below.
 
-libmaxminddb-release.props
+## libmaxminddb-release.props
 
 This property sheet contains all Release settings and is shared between
 Win32 and x64 release builds. It must be located higher than the base
 property sheet in the property Manager window for each configuration
 where it's used (i.e. Release|Win32 and Release|x64).
 
-libmaxminddb-x64.props
+## libmaxminddb-x64.props
 
 This property sheet contains all x64 settings and is shared between all
 Debug and Release x64 configurations. It must be located higher than the
 base property sheet in the property Manager window for each configuration
 where it's used (i.e. Debug|x64 and Release|x64).
 
-Adding More Projects
+## Adding More Projects
 
 If you want to add more projects into this solution, follow the same logic
 and create their own property sheets. Do not use libmaxminddb property
@@ -50,3 +50,10 @@ each library file's property to assign them to the proper build confguration.
 Unused libraries will be shown with a traffic stop sign in each configuration.
 If you have a lot of projects, it might be easier to do this by editing .vcxproj
 and .vcxproj.filters in a text editor.
+
+# Tests
+
+To use the tests, you must download the `libtap` and `maxmind-db` submodules.
+This can be done by running `git submodule update --init --recursive` from
+the Git checkout. Each test source file has a separate project. Once compiled,
+the tests must be run from the base directory of the checkout.