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-For Visual Studio 2019, you can now either use the CMakeLists.txt file or the included `basisu.sln` file.
+For Visual Studio 2019, you can now either use the CMakeLists.txt file or the included `basisu.sln` file. Earlier versions of Visual Studio (particularly 2017) should work but aren't actively tested. We develop with the most up to date version of 2019.
To compress a sRGB PNG/BMP/TGA/JPEG image to an ETC1S .KTX2 file:
