diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
index c58e1dab7d8fd..91e9ee2649073 100644
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ environment:
       PYTHON: "3.5"
       ARCH: "64"
       CONFIGURATION: "Release"
+    - JOB: "Build"
+      GENERATOR: Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64
+      PYTHON: "3.5"
+      ARCH: "64"
+      CONFIGURATION: "Release"
+      APPVEYOR_BUILD_WORKER_IMAGE: Visual Studio 2017
+      BOOST_ROOT: C:\Libraries\boost_1_64_0
 
   MSVC_DEFAULT_OPTIONS: ON
   BOOST_ROOT: C:\Libraries\boost_1_63_0
diff --git a/cpp/cmake_modules/SnappyConfig.h b/cpp/cmake_modules/SnappyConfig.h
index 74eb77621626b..c998d1813aa7e 100644
--- a/cpp/cmake_modules/SnappyConfig.h
+++ b/cpp/cmake_modules/SnappyConfig.h
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 #ifndef SNAPPY_CONFIG_H
 #define SNAPPY_CONFIG_H 1
 
-#if defined(_MSC_VER) && (_MSC_VER <= 1900)
+#if defined(_MSC_VER) && (_MSC_VER <= 1910)
 typedef __int64 ssize_t;
 #endif