Updated Windows Binaries?

[tmcqueen-materials]

I was wondering if there was any interest in cutting a new release and preparing updated windows binaries? xylib works beautifully on most Linux platforms, but we are finding non-tech-savvy folks have troubles using this wonderful tool on windows.

Or, if there is not interest in actually generating new binaries, perhaps step-by-step installation instructions for windows? Attached is a very rough cut of what those might look like.

1) Download and install windows cmake:
https://cmake.org/download/
(make sure cmake is added to path for all users)

2) Download and install git:
https://git-scm.com/download/win
(make sure git wrappers are added to path -- defaults should do this)

3) Download and install the MSVC build tools (not full ide):
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/build-tools-container?view=vs-2017

(you can adjust end of url to change version, the below is written assuming 2017...)

Download: https://aka.ms/vs/15/release/vs_buildtools.exe

From command prompt:
vs_buildtools.exe --wait --passive --norestart --nocache --installPath "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools" --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.MSBuildTools --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.VCTools --add Microsoft.Component.VC.Runtime.UCRTSDK --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Windows81SDK

3) Download the header files, development files, and corresponding Release DLLs:
https://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/

Put in c:\wxWidgets

4) Download Boost header files:
https://boostorg.jfrog.io/artifactory/main/release/1.78.0/source/
unzip in c:\Boost

5) Download prebuilt SWIG:

http://www.swig.org/download.html
unzip to c:\SWIG

6) To build python wheels:
download python 3.5 or later (x86 or x86-64 for 32-bit and 64-bit respectively) executable installers from https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/ . Install python (Make sure to add python to path). Wheels must be built for each major version (3.5/3.6/3.7/...) and each architecture (x86/x64) separately.

7) REBOOT

8) Download and build zlib dll:
https://www.zlib.net/zlib1211.zip
Open msvc prompt
cd zlib

For 32-bit, use 32-bit msvc prompt and do:
# assembly accelerated versions incompatible with SAFESEH, so don't use
nmake -f win32/Makefile.msc  

For 64-bit, use 64-bit msvc prompt and do:
nmake -f win32/Makefile.msc AS=ml64 LOC="-DASMV -DASMINF -I."  OBJA="inffasx64.obj gvmat64.obj inffas8664.obj"

9) Build XYLIB:
goto c: root
git clone https://github.com/wojdyr/xylib.git
cd xylib
# For 32-bit build with 32-bit msvc prompt
cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017" -A Win32 -DZLIB_ROOT=c:\zlib -DwxWidgets_ROOT_DIR=c:\wxWidgets -DwxWidgets_LIB_DIR=c:\wxWidgets\lib\vc14x_dll -B build_winx86
cd build_winx86
msbuild ALL_BUILD.vcxproj -p:configuration=release

# For 64-bit build with 64-bit msvc prompt
cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017" -A x64 -DZLIB_ROOT=c:\zlib -DwxWidgets_ROOT_DIR=c:\wxWidgets -DwxWidgets_LIB_DIR=c:\wxWidgets\lib\vc14x_x64_dll -B build_winx64
cd build_winx64
msbuild ALL_BUILD.vcxproj -p:configuration=release

10) Build python binary wheels
From separate admin command prompt, do:
pip install --upgrade setuptools wheel
then back in msvc console
set path=c:\swig;%PATH%
set include=c:\boost;%INCLUDE%
python setup.py bdist_wheel

[MarcoVando]

Hi.
I'm struggling with the installation of xylib on windows while I did it on colab (linux) very easily.
For other packages I installed SWING, BOOST etc from pip and after building manually the package with install.py everything worked.
Here seems that there are some other problems.

Did you managed to install this package? (without installing all those dedicated softwares on win)
PS I need only the xylib package... not all the softwares which use it.