Build for Windows 10

[vandanparmar]

I have been trying to build this on windows in a variety of different ways - following the build instructions. There is an image below of the error whilst attempting to pip install from Visual Studio 14.0 build tools command prompt.

I have also tried building from source, with mingw and cygwin. But neither of these seem to work. I would really appreciate some more detailed installation instructions for windows 10.

[joachimmetz]

@vandanparmar can you provide detailed logs/information about "But neither of these seem to work."

the error in the screenshot does not contain enough detail for me to determine what is going wrong on your system.

Also have a look at https://github.com/libyal/libpff/wiki/Building

[vandanparmar]

I am currently using a Windows 10 build with Anaconda python 3.7. I am only trying to build the python bindings.

I was expecting that with pip install libpff-python from within a Visual Studio command prompt would work, however this does not yielding the error above. Pip installation does seem to work on Linux and Mac OS.

[joachimmetz]

I was expecting that with pip install libpff-python from within a Visual Studio command prompt would work

This depends on many different factors. Note that pip is not one of the preferred build options in the documentation.

[vandanparmar]

Ok - makes sense. To confirm, on Windows 10, for python 3.7, what would be your recommended build procedure, to build just the python bindings? Using python setup.py build also does not work.

[joachimmetz]

1. python bindings are WIP see https://github.com/libyal/libpff/issues/2
2. setup.py build is automatically tested on AppVeyor https://ci.appveyor.com/project/libyal/libpff/build/job/uuwfjafdj16s42na#L37 and that is passing, so I suspect the issue with your build environment
3. You'll need to provide me with details about what is not working, otherwise I'm unable to help you

[vandanparmar]

Thank you for your help, the build now seems to be working.