[Problem] How to compile for Windows?

[jmozmoz]

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Version

0.21 (Development)

Full version info

The current LinkStable branch (a9810d509a6f112b5ac03d4d4831b67e6bffd5b7)

Subproject(s) affected?

None

Problem description

I tried to compile the latest commit of the LinkStable branch (a9810d5) on Windows, but I ran into different problems, depending on the combination of compiler and libpack.

• Visual Studio 2022 and libpack versions below LibPack-1.0.0 Version 3.0.0: The error described here: C2039 "seekpos" is not a member of class "std::fpos<_Mbstatet>"  FreeCAD/FreeCAD#17813

• Visual Studio Build Tools 2019 and libpack versions >=3.0.0: Does not work, because QT 5 is missing

• Visual Studio Build Tools 2019 and libpack versions LibPack-0.21-V2.11 and LibPack-OCC76-V2 (the default used in GitHub pipelines): Compiler error in Part.dll

xxx\FreeCAD\src\Mod\Part\App\AppPartPy.cpp(393,51): error C2664: 'HMODULE LoadLibraryW(LPCWSTR)': cannot convert argument 1 from 'const char [11]' to 'LPCWSTR' [xxx\FreeCAD\build19\src\Mod\Part\App\Part.vcxproj]
xxx\FreeCAD\src\Mod\Part\App\TopoShapeEx.cpp(2293,21): error C2653: 'BRepFeat': is not a class or namespace name [xxx\FreeCAD\build19\src\Mod\Part\App\Part.vcxproj]
xxx\FreeCAD\src\Mod\Part\App\TopoShapeEx.cpp(2293,31): error C3861: 'FaceUntil': identifier not found [xxx\FreeCAD\build19\src\Mod\Part\App\Part.vcxproj]
xxx\FreeCAD\src\Mod\Part\App\TopoShapeEx.cpp(2295,21): error C2653: 'BRepFeat': is not a class or namespace name [xxx\FreeCAD\build19\src\Mod\Part\App\Part.vcxproj]
xxx\FreeCAD\src\Mod\Part\App\TopoShapeEx.cpp(2295,31): error C3861: 'FaceUntil': identifier not found [xxx\FreeCAD\build19\src\Mod\Part\App\Part.vcxproj]

What combination of LibPack/compiler is working for Windows?

After Configure and Generate in cmake-gui, I used this command to start the build:

cmake --build . --config Release --target ALL_BUILD

Anything else?

When checking out the submodules, one points to a non-existing commit:

git submodule update --recursive --init
fatal: remote error: upload-pack: not our ref f0ccbe232f05ef4113143b8cd6c6c307de362aae
fatal: Fetched in submodule path '../src/3rdParty/Diligent/DiligentCore/ThirdParty/xxHash', but it did not contain f0ccbe232f05ef4113143b8cd6c6c307de362aae. Direct fetching of that commit failed.
fatal: Failed to recurse into submodule path '../src/3rdParty/Diligent/DiligentCore'
fatal: Failed to recurse into submodule path '../src/3rdParty/Diligent'

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[Shkolik]

Same question... Would be great to have if not instruction, but at least version of the lib-pack to build a project.

[legion-96]

I have been trying to figure this out as well itd be pretty cool if someone could help answer this