Compile CppREST on CentOS 7

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Compile C++ REST SDK on CentOS 7

C++ REST SDK is built on Ubuntu 16 by the offical document. To build it on CentOS 7, here's how.

Prerequisites:

1. Install build tools by sudo yum group install Development\ Tools
2. Install dependent libraries by sudo yum install zlib-devel libicu-devel openssl-devel
3. Get CMake 3.x binary from https://cmake.org/download/
4. Get Boost 1.58 source code from https://www.boost.org/users/history/ and install it under /opt/boost_1_58_0 by https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_58_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html#easy-build-and-install.

CMake and Boost packages for CentOS are not used here because their versions are too old.

Building C++ REST SDK

1. Get source code into a directory, name it casablanca. You can get it from official repo or a forked one.
2. export BOOST_ROOT=/opt/boost_1_58_0
3. Make sure casablanca/Release/CMakeLists.txt contains a WERROR option. If yes, do cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DWERROR=OFF under casablanca/Release/build.release. Otherwise, remove -Werror from casablanca/Release/src/CMakeLists.txt and do cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release, under casablanca/Release/build.release.
4. make under casablanca/Release/build.release

Reference microsoft/cpprestsdk#682 and https://github.com/Microsoft/cpprestsdk/wiki/How-to-build-for-Linux

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