diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 1f09726..43042b3 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ depcomp
 missing
 install-sh
 stamp-h1
-cpuminer-config.h*
+ccminer-config.h*
 compile
 config.log
 config.status
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ x64/Release/
 *.opensdf
 *.sdf
 *.pdb
+*.VC.opendb
+*.VC.db
 
 .settings/
 .project
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 9f7bd8e..79b4d41 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ endif
 
 EXTRA_DIST		= autogen.sh README.md README.txt LICENSE.txt \
 			  ccminer.sln ccminer.vcxproj ccminer.vcxproj.filters \
-			  compat/gettimeofday.c compat/getopt/getopt_long.c cpuminer-config.h.in
+			  compat/gettimeofday.c compat/getopt/getopt_long.c
 
 SUBDIRS = compat
 
diff --git a/ccminer.cpp b/ccminer.cpp
index a49531c..8e672ac 100644
--- a/ccminer.cpp
+++ b/ccminer.cpp
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
  * any later version.  See COPYING for more details.
  */
 
-#include "cpuminer-config.h"
+#include <ccminer-config.h>
 
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
@@ -3244,7 +3244,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 
 	printf("*** ccminer " PACKAGE_VERSION " for nVidia GPUs by tpruvot@github ***\n");
 #ifdef _MSC_VER
-	printf("    Built with VC++ 2013 and nVidia CUDA SDK %d.%d\n\n",
+	printf("    Built with VC++ %d and nVidia CUDA SDK %d.%d\n\n", msver(),
 #else
 	printf("    Built with the nVidia CUDA Toolkit %d.%d\n\n",
 #endif
diff --git a/ccminer.vcxproj b/ccminer.vcxproj
index 10d32f2..800fa36 100644
--- a/ccminer.vcxproj
+++ b/ccminer.vcxproj
@@ -23,22 +23,19 @@
     <RootNamespace>ccminer</RootNamespace>
   </PropertyGroup>
   <Import Project="$(VCTargetsPath)\Microsoft.Cpp.Default.props" />
-  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)'=='Release'" Label="Configuration">
+  <PropertyGroup Label="Configuration">
     <ConfigurationType>Application</ConfigurationType>
-    <UseDebugLibraries>false</UseDebugLibraries>
     <CharacterSet>MultiByte</CharacterSet>
     <PlatformToolset>v120</PlatformToolset>
     <CLRSupport>false</CLRSupport>
     <LinkIncremental>false</LinkIncremental>
+  </PropertyGroup>
+  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)'=='Release'" Label="Configuration">
+    <UseDebugLibraries>false</UseDebugLibraries>
     <WholeProgramOptimization>true</WholeProgramOptimization>
   </PropertyGroup>
   <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)'=='Debug'" Label="Configuration">
-    <ConfigurationType>Application</ConfigurationType>
     <UseDebugLibraries>true</UseDebugLibraries>
-    <CharacterSet>MultiByte</CharacterSet>
-    <PlatformToolset>v120</PlatformToolset>
-    <CLRSupport>false</CLRSupport>
-    <LinkIncremental>false</LinkIncremental>
   </PropertyGroup>
   <Import Project="$(VCTargetsPath)\Microsoft.Cpp.props" />
   <ImportGroup Label="ExtensionSettings" Condition="'$(Platform)'=='Win32'">
@@ -227,6 +224,7 @@
     <ClCompile Include="compat\jansson\strconv.c" />
     <ClCompile Include="compat\jansson\utf.c" />
     <ClCompile Include="compat\jansson\value.c" />
+    <ClInclude Include="compat\pthreads\pthread.h" />
     <ClCompile Include="compat\winansi.c" />
     <ClCompile Include="ccminer.cpp">
       <TreatWChar_tAsBuiltInType>false</TreatWChar_tAsBuiltInType>
@@ -310,7 +308,7 @@
     <ClInclude Include="compat\sys\time.h" />
     <ClInclude Include="compat\unistd.h" />
     <ClInclude Include="compat\winansi.h" />
-    <ClInclude Include="cpuminer-config.h" />
+    <ClInclude Include="compat\ccminer-config.h" />
     <ClInclude Include="cuda_groestlcoin.h" />
     <ClInclude Include="cuda_helper.h" />
     <ClInclude Include="cuda_vector_uint2x4.h" />
diff --git a/ccminer.vcxproj.filters b/ccminer.vcxproj.filters
index ed942f3..33e3c30 100644
--- a/ccminer.vcxproj.filters
+++ b/ccminer.vcxproj.filters
@@ -219,6 +219,9 @@
     <ClCompile Include="compat\jansson\error.c">
       <Filter>Source Files\jansson</Filter>
     </ClCompile>
+    <ClInclude Include="compat\pthreads\pthread.h">
+      <Filter>Header Files\compat</Filter>
+    </ClInclude>
     <ClCompile Include="lyra2\Lyra2.c">
       <Filter>Source Files\sph</Filter>
     </ClCompile>
@@ -267,7 +270,7 @@
       <Filter>Header Files</Filter>
     </ClInclude>
     <ClInclude Include="compat.h">
-      <Filter>Header Files</Filter>
+      <Filter>Header Files\compat</Filter>
     </ClInclude>
     <ClInclude Include="elist.h">
       <Filter>Header Files</Filter>
@@ -290,8 +293,8 @@
     <ClInclude Include="compat\stdbool.h">
       <Filter>Header Files\compat</Filter>
     </ClInclude>
-    <ClInclude Include="cpuminer-config.h">
-      <Filter>Header Files</Filter>
+    <ClInclude Include="compat\ccminer-config.h">
+      <Filter>Header Files\compat</Filter>
     </ClInclude>
     <ClInclude Include="uint256.h">
       <Filter>Header Files</Filter>
diff --git a/compat.h b/compat.h
index 3e9d975..a98dab9 100644
--- a/compat.h
+++ b/compat.h
@@ -51,6 +51,17 @@ static __inline int setpriority(int which, int who, int prio)
 #define strcasecmp(x,y) _stricmp(x,y)
 typedef int ssize_t;
 
+__inline int msver(void) {
+	switch (_MSC_VER) {
+	case 1500: return 2008;
+	case 1600: return 2010;
+	case 1700: return 2012;
+	case 1800: return 2013;
+	case 1900: return 2015;
+	default: return (_MSC_VER/100);
+	}
+}
+
 #include <stdlib.h>
 static __inline char * dirname(char *file) {
 	char buffer[_MAX_PATH] = { 0 };
diff --git a/cpuminer-config.h b/compat/ccminer-config.h
similarity index 92%
rename from cpuminer-config.h
rename to compat/ccminer-config.h
index 86fbc1e..9c4d81a 100644
--- a/cpuminer-config.h
+++ b/compat/ccminer-config.h
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-/* cpuminer-config.h.  Generated from cpuminer-config.h.in by configure.  */
-/* cpuminer-config.h.in.  Generated from configure.ac by autoheader.  */
+/* CONFIG ONLY FOR MS VC++ BUILD */
 
 /* Define to one of `_getb67', `GETB67', `getb67' for Cray-2 and Cray-YMP
    systems. This function is required for `alloca.c' support on those systems.
@@ -161,17 +160,11 @@
 /* Define to the full name of this package. */
 #define PACKAGE_NAME "ccminer"
 
-/* Define to the full name and version of this package. */
-#define PACKAGE_STRING "ccminer 1.7.6"
-
-/* Define to the one symbol short name of this package. */
-#define PACKAGE_TARNAME "ccminer"
-
 /* Define to the home page for this package. */
 #define PACKAGE_URL "http://github.com/tpruvot/ccminer"
 
 /* Define to the version of this package. */
-#define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.7.6"
+#define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.8-dev"
 
 /* If using the C implementation of alloca, define if you know the
    direction of stack growth for your system; otherwise it will be
@@ -184,11 +177,12 @@
 /* Define to 1 if you have the ANSI C header files. */
 #define STDC_HEADERS 1
 
-/* Version number of package */
-#define VERSION "1.7.6"
-
 /* Define curl_free() as free() if our version of curl lacks curl_free. */
 /* #undef curl_free */
 
 /* Define to `unsigned int' if <sys/types.h> does not define. */
 //#define size_t unsigned int
+
+#if !defined(HAVE_STRUCT_TIMESPEC) && _MSC_VER >= 1900
+#define HAVE_STRUCT_TIMESPEC
+#endif
diff --git a/compat/jansson/jansson_config.h b/compat/jansson/jansson_config.h
index 90ca129..0f3c7ca 100644
--- a/compat/jansson/jansson_config.h
+++ b/compat/jansson/jansson_config.h
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@
 
 #ifdef _MSC_VER
 #define inline __inline
+#if !defined(HAVE_STRUCT_TIMESPEC) && _MSC_VER >= 1900
+#define HAVE_STRUCT_TIMESPEC
+#endif
 #endif
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus
diff --git a/compat/pthreads/pthread.h b/compat/pthreads/pthread.h
index 85f9cce..c8ee778 100644
--- a/compat/pthreads/pthread.h
+++ b/compat/pthreads/pthread.h
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@
 #if !defined( PTHREAD_H )
 #define PTHREAD_H
 
+#if !defined(HAVE_STRUCT_TIMESPEC) && _MSC_VER >= 1900
+#define HAVE_STRUCT_TIMESPEC
+#endif
+
 /*
  * See the README file for an explanation of the pthreads-win32 version
  * numbering scheme and how the DLL is named etc.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index aec2fe6..62486f5 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-AC_INIT([ccminer], [1.7.6], [], [ccminer], [http://github.com/tpruvot/ccminer])
+AC_INIT([ccminer], [1.8-dev], [], [ccminer], [http://github.com/tpruvot/ccminer])
 
 AC_PREREQ([2.59c])
 AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([ccminer.cpp])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign subdir-objects])
-AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([cpuminer-config.h])
+AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([ccminer-config.h])
 
 dnl Make sure anyone changing configure.ac/Makefile.am has a clue
 AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
diff --git a/miner.h b/miner.h
index 1efc579..10dd6a4 100644
--- a/miner.h
+++ b/miner.h
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 extern "C" {
 #endif
 
-#include "cpuminer-config.h"
+#include <ccminer-config.h>
 
 #include <stdbool.h>
 #include <inttypes.h>
diff --git a/res/ccminer.rc b/res/ccminer.rc
index 4df91aa..8c37fcb 100644
--- a/res/ccminer.rc
+++ b/res/ccminer.rc
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ IDI_ICON1               ICON                    "ccminer.ico"
 //
 
 VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
- FILEVERSION 1,7,6,0
- PRODUCTVERSION 1,7,6,0
+ FILEVERSION 1,8,0,0
+ PRODUCTVERSION 1,8,0,0
  FILEFLAGSMASK 0x3fL
 #ifdef _DEBUG
  FILEFLAGS 0x21L
@@ -76,10 +76,10 @@ BEGIN
     BEGIN
         BLOCK "040904e4"
         BEGIN
-            VALUE "FileVersion", "1.7.6"
+            VALUE "FileVersion", "1.8.rc"
             VALUE "LegalCopyright", "Copyright (C) 2016"
             VALUE "ProductName", "ccminer"
-            VALUE "ProductVersion", "1.7.6"
+            VALUE "ProductVersion", "1.8.rc"
         END
     END
     BLOCK "VarFileInfo"
diff --git a/sph/sha2.c b/sph/sha2.c
index 517bdcf..7160c75 100644
--- a/sph/sha2.c
+++ b/sph/sha2.c
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
  * any later version.  See COPYING for more details.
  */
 
-#include "cpuminer-config.h"
 #include "miner.h"
 
 #include <string.h>
diff --git a/util.cpp b/util.cpp
index df32394..7f57019 100644
--- a/util.cpp
+++ b/util.cpp
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
  */
 
 //#define _GNU_SOURCE
-#include "cpuminer-config.h"
+#include <ccminer-config.h>
 
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>