Build Instructions for Windows

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Building on Windows

Building MVE on Windows is possible, but unsupported. There are a few issues when compiling with Visual Studio which have been patched in the "cmake" branch of Andre Schulz' fork of MVE (https://github.com/andre-schulz/mve.git). A list of patched issues follows:

• Replace GNU make build system with CMake
• Downgraded OpenMP 3.0+ code back to 2.0 because Visual Studio only supports OpenMP 2.0
• Export MainWindowTab symbol for UMVE plugins

Requirements:

• 64-bit Windows
• Visual Studio 2015 (64-bit) or newer
• CMake 3.1 or newer

Build instructions:

1. Pull from https://github.com/andre-schulz/mve.git
2. Switch to the "cmake" branch (respectively "remotes/origin/cmake")

First, we will build the required 3rd party libraries:

1. Run cmake (configure + generate) in the "3rdparty" folder

• Make sure that the build folder is the same as the source code folder

2. Open "3rdparty.sln"
3. Set the solution configuration to "Release"
4. Build the solution

Second, we will build MVE itself:

1. Run cmake (configure + generate) in "mve" folder
2. Open "MVE.sln"
3. Set your desired solution configuration (you'll most likely want "Release")
4. Build the solution
5. Build the CMake predefined target "PACKAGE"

This will create a .ZIP archive in the build folder named "MVE-0.1.1-win64.zip" which contains all binaries and their required libraries.