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build: drop support for VS2008 (Windows)

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Require Visual Studio 2010 or newer.

Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/discussions/15972

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as soon as possible and explain to us why this is a problem for you and
how your use case cannot be satisfied properly using a workaround.
## VS2008
curl drops support for getting built with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 in
November 2025.
The only reason we kept support for this version is for Windows CE - and we
intend to remove support for that Operating System in this time frame as well.
Bumping the minimum to VS2010. VS2008 is a pain to support.
Previous discussion and details: https://github.com/curl/curl/discussions/15972
## Windows XP
In January 2026, curl drops support for Windows XP and Server 2003. Their
@ -94,3 +83,4 @@ Support for RTMP in libcurl gets removed in April 2026.
- msh3 (removed in 8.16.0)
- winbuild build system (removed in 8.17.0)
- Windows CE (removed in 8.18.0)
- Support for Visual Studio 2008 (removed in 8.18.0)

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You can build curl with:
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 v9.0 or later (`_MSC_VER >= 1500`)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 v10.0 or later (`_MSC_VER >= 1600`)
- MinGW-w64 3.0 or later (`__MINGW64_VERSION_MAJOR >= 3`)
## Building Windows DLLs and C runtime (CRT) linkage issues