diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ae708ff184..3fb3af0d13 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ vgcore.*
 .Trashes
 ehthumbs.db
 Thumbs.db
-.clang-format
 .lammps_history
+.vs
 
 #cmake
 /build*
@@ -49,3 +49,8 @@ Thumbs.db
 /Testing
 /cmake_install.cmake
 /lmp
+out/Debug
+out/RelWithDebInfo
+out/Release
+out/x86
+out/x64
diff --git a/src/EXTRA-DUMP/xdr_compat.h b/src/EXTRA-DUMP/xdr_compat.h
index 30aecbcb62..6557a60a53 100644
--- a/src/EXTRA-DUMP/xdr_compat.h
+++ b/src/EXTRA-DUMP/xdr_compat.h
@@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ extern "C" {
 
 typedef int bool_t;
 
-#if defined(__MINGW32__) || defined(__APPLE__) || defined(__FreeBSD__) || \
-    defined(__DragonFly__) || defined(__OpenBSD__) || defined(__NetBSD__)
+#if defined(_WIN32) || defined(__APPLE__) || defined(__FreeBSD__) || \
+  defined(__DragonFly__) || defined(__OpenBSD__) || defined(__NetBSD__)
 typedef char *caddr_t;
 typedef unsigned int u_int;
 #endif
diff --git a/src/ML-SNAP/pair_snap.cpp b/src/ML-SNAP/pair_snap.cpp
index d7cd953615..d6da639734 100644
--- a/src/ML-SNAP/pair_snap.cpp
+++ b/src/ML-SNAP/pair_snap.cpp
@@ -500,8 +500,7 @@ void PairSNAP::read_files(char *coefffilename, char *paramfilename)
     nelemtmp = words.next_int();
     ncoeffall = words.next_int();
   } catch (TokenizerException &e) {
-    error->all(FLERR,"Incorrect format in SNAP coefficient "
-                                 "file: {}", e.what());
+    error->all(FLERR,"Incorrect format in SNAP coefficient file: {}", e.what());
   }
 
   // clean out old arrays and set up element lists
@@ -538,7 +537,7 @@ void PairSNAP::read_files(char *coefffilename, char *paramfilename)
     std::vector<std::string> words;
     try {
       words = Tokenizer(utils::trim_comment(line),"\"' \t\n\r\f").as_vector();
-    } catch (TokenizerException &e) {
+    } catch (TokenizerException &) {
       // ignore
     }
     if (words.size() != 3)
@@ -599,8 +598,7 @@ void PairSNAP::read_files(char *coefffilename, char *paramfilename)
 
         coeffelem[jelem][icoeff] = coeff.next_double();
       } catch (TokenizerException &e) {
-        error->all(FLERR,"Incorrect format in SNAP coefficient "
-                                     "file: {}", e.what());
+        error->all(FLERR,"Incorrect format in SNAP coefficient file: {}", e.what());
       }
     }
   }
@@ -609,8 +607,7 @@ void PairSNAP::read_files(char *coefffilename, char *paramfilename)
 
   for (int jelem = 0; jelem < nelements; jelem++) {
     if (elementflags[jelem] == 0)
-      error->all(FLERR,"Element {} not found in SNAP coefficient "
-                                   "file", elements[jelem]);
+      error->all(FLERR,"Element {} not found in SNAP coefficient file", elements[jelem]);
   }
   delete[] elementflags;
 
@@ -660,7 +657,7 @@ void PairSNAP::read_files(char *coefffilename, char *paramfilename)
     std::vector<std::string> words;
     try {
       words = Tokenizer(utils::trim_comment(line),"\"' \t\n\r\f").as_vector();
-    } catch (TokenizerException &e) {
+    } catch (TokenizerException &) {
       // ignore
     }
 
diff --git a/src/MOLFILE/molfile_interface.cpp b/src/MOLFILE/molfile_interface.cpp
index e18f62b337..808bc16ab4 100644
--- a/src/MOLFILE/molfile_interface.cpp
+++ b/src/MOLFILE/molfile_interface.cpp
@@ -27,8 +27,6 @@
 #include <cstdio>
 #include <cstring>
 #include <cstdlib>
-#include <cctype>
-#include <strings.h>    // for strcasecmp()
 
 #if vmdplugin_ABIVERSION < 16
 #error "unsupported VMD molfile plugin ABI version"
@@ -249,7 +247,7 @@ int MolfileInterface::find_plugin(const char *pluginpath)
 int MolfileInterface::load_plugin(const char *filename)
 {
   void *dso;
-  int len, retval = E_NONE;
+  int retval = E_NONE;
 
   // access shared object
   dso = platform::dlopen(filename);