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brechtsanders / xlsxio

XLSX I/O - C library for reading and writing .xlsx files
MIT License
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Windows Binaries. #36

Closed XeniCoder closed 5 years ago

XeniCoder commented 5 years ago

Hi, I am looking to try your program on a Windows 7 + Visual Studio system. I saw in the readme file a note: "For Windows prebuilt binaries are also available for download (both 32-bit and 64-bit)" but I was not sure where in gitHub those files would be. I looked in the Lib folder but I did not see any dll's or lib files there. I downloaded the project files but do not see them there either. The 'docs' folder is fairly empty as well. I am probably asking a dumb question and that the answer is right in front of me.

Thanks XeniCoder

brechtsanders commented 5 years ago

The binaries are under the releases page: https://github.com/brechtsanders/xlsxio/releases Or you could build them yourself using CMake (which supports Visual Studio).

XeniCoder commented 5 years ago

Thanks. I looked all over the github page but could not find the "releases" folder. Do people just add 'releases' to the project name to find them?
re: VisualStudio. I did not know VS could work with CMake files. I asked around here and I got a long explanation about Jenkins, and virtual machines and hard it was to get all these things to work together. Do I just "import" the CMake into VS or ?

brechtsanders commented 5 years ago

On each github project page there is a bar above the file list: commits / branches / RELEASES / ... Some projects don't have releases (yet) though and require you to download the current master source (with the green button just below that bar). CMake is mostly a command line tool but it does have a graphical interface too (also on Windows). Maybe jou should just search Google for "using cmake on windows with visual studio" to find the right instructions or even tutorials.