Google's pdfium codebase set up, by hand, as a vanilla Visual Studio solution that compiles to a static library on Windows under Visual Studio 2019.

Notes:

• I pulled this code on 4/25/2019. It is whatever version of pdfium that implies. updated: currently using Pdfium code pulled on 2/25/2021.
• I have turned off Xfa, javascript, and Skia. I may eventually enable Skia as a separate build configuration but I have no plans to turn on Xfa or js.
• Both x64 and x86 configurations should now build.
• I build all the 3rd party dependencies from code included herein, except for libjpeg-turbo which I statically link to as an included binary. I couldnt build libjpeg-turbo because it is compiled from assembly language files that are in the NASM dialect of assembly and out-of-the-box Visual Studio only supports MASM.
• I build the 3rd party dependencies directly into the Pdfium library not as separate libs.

I've included an example command line utility that renders page ranges of PDFs to image files. usage is like

render_pdf.exe some.pdf -o outputfile_stem -f PNG -s 2.0 -r 3-5

which means render some.pdf to output files outputfile_stem-3.png, outputfile_stem-4.png, and outputfile_stem-5.png, scaled up by 200%. There is currently a bug in the image files in which the colors come out wrong. The bug is caused by stb-image-write expecting RGB formatted colors whereas Pdfium is outputting BGR colors.