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 3.7 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
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.