meshlab/scripts/Windows

Windows Scripts

This folder contains a series of scripts to build and deploy MeshLab under a Windows environment.

Note about the compiler

On Windows, we use MSVC compiler to build MeshLab. Before trying to build MeshLab, you should download and install VisualStudio with the C++ developer package, which contains the MSVC compiler.

Other compilers are not tested.

Note about Qt

MeshLab requires Qt 5.15. You can both install Qt5 using choco or manually in your system. If you install Qt manually. you can then give the path of the Qt installation directory to the various scripts, or you can add Qt to your PATH.

The 0_setup_env.sh script won't install qt from choco if you pass the argument dont_install_qt.

Dependencies

Dependencies are automatically installed by the 0_setup_env.sh script, which uses choco as package manager. Be sure to have choco installed before running this script.

Libraries installed by the 0_setup_env.sh are the following:

• Required by MeshLab:
  • wget (required by these scripts)
  • ccache (required by github actions)
  • cmake
  • ninja
  • nsis (for package stage)