Re: building SWIG on Windows with CMake (and Visual Studio)

Hi Kris

There is actually an updated version of the Windows.html file you
referenced which includes CMake build instructions for master / next
release (4.1.0) at
https://github.com/swig/swig/blob/45c015b6319927fed962967c2a2c7fb816076043/Doc/Manual/Windows.html.
HTML preview can be seen using
http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/swig/swig/blob/45c015b6319927fed962967c2a2c7fb816076043/Doc/Manual/Windows.html.
These will be the official instructions. If these don't work for you or you
think they should be improved please put in a pull request.

William



On Mon, 19 Jul 2021 at 15:36, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear all
>
>
>
> I've just successfully build current SWIG master via CMake on Windows 10,
> using Visual Studio 2019. I thought others might be interested in this so
> post it here.
>
>
>
> This instructions are a bit more complicated as hoped by still simpler
> than Getting started on Windows (swig.org)
> <http://swig.org/Doc4.0/Windows.html#Windows_swig_exe>.
>
>
>
> - install sed and bison. I used Gnuwin32 set-up utilities from
>
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/m4.htm (which actually installs
> sed+m4) and http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/bison.htm. Install
> into a directory without spaces (e.g. c:\users\yourname\Gnuwin32)
>
>
>
> - build PCRE
>
>   - get latest pcre-* source from https://ftp.pcre.org/pub/pcre/ (I used
> 8.45). (Do not use pcre2*).
>
>   - Use CMake to configure:
>
>      - set BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON or you will get linking errors (missing
> symbol imp_pcre...)
>
>      - best to set CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to a directory where you have
> write permission
>
>    - build Release version and INSTALL
>
>
>
> - For old SWIG versions, do "pip install 2to3"
>
>
>
> - add both c:\users\yourname\Gnuwin32\bin and the "bin" sub-directory
> where you set CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to your (user) path via the System
> Properties control panel
>
>
>
> - build SWIG
>
>   - run CMake
>
>       - best to set CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to same directory as used for PCRE
>
>       - probably will have to set PCRE_INCLUDE_DIR and PCRE_LIBRARY (point
> the latter to .../pcre.lib)
>
>       - set BISON_EXECUTABLE if not found
>
>   - build and INSTALL (probably you want to use Release as well)
>
>
>
> (note: adding the PCRE CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/bin to your path is necessary
> as you will need directory where pcre.dll is in your path for SWIG to run).
>
>
>
> Kris
>
>
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