[Paraview] Fail to build vtkIO in 3.8.0 on Windows7 64bit MSVC2008

[Dr. X]

Hi All,
I am building ParaView 3.8.0 from source on a Windows7 64bit machine 
with MSVC2008 and Windows SDK7.1.
I ran into a lot of compilation errors regarding redefinitions in 
ws2def.h and WinSock2.h. Here are some of these errors in vtkIO project:
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Error    16    error C2059: syntax error : 'constant'    C:\Program 
Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Include\ws2def.h    390    vtkIO
Error    17    error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '}'    
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Include\ws2def.h    443    
vtkIO
Error    18    error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: 
C++ does not support default-int    C:\Program Files\Microsoft 
SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Include\ws2def.h    443    vtkIO
Error    19    error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: 
C++ does not support default-int    C:\Program Files\Microsoft 
SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Include\ws2def.h    443    vtkIO
Error    25    error C2011: 'sockaddr_in' : 'struct' type 
redefinition    C:\Program Files\Microsoft 
SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Include\ws2def.h    583    vtkIO
Error    26    error C2011: 'fd_set' : 'struct' type redefinition    
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Include\WinSock2.h    
132    vtkIO
Error    28    error C2011: 'timeval' : 'struct' type redefinition    
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Include\WinSock2.h    
176    vtkIO
Error    29    error C2011: 'hostent' : 'struct' type redefinition    
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Include\WinSock2.h    
232    vtkIO
Error    30    error C2011: 'netent' : 'struct' type redefinition    
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Include\WinSock2.h    
245    vtkIO
Error    31    error C2011: 'servent' : 'struct' type redefinition    
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Include\WinSock2.h    
252    vtkIO
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I have made sure before every #include <windows.h> there is #include 
<WinSock2.h>. But that did not mitigate the problem. Can anyone help 
please? Thanks a lot.

Best,
x

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