Instructions for building on VS2017?

[MerijnHendriks]

What OS are you using (uname -a, or Windows version)?

Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC (2019) Version: 1809

What programming language are you using (C/C++/Go/Rust)?

Visual Studio 2017 Community (C++ workload) VS2017 version: 15.9.24 VC++ version: 15.9 v14.16 Win10 SDK: 10.0.15063.0

What did you expect to see and what you saw instead?

I wanted to build a basic C++ project containing webview.h, webview.cc and main.cc (provided in the master branch) using Visual Studio I expected to build it without issues. However, this is not the case. There are too many errors to track down the issue.

What am I doing wrong? Are there instructions how to build it using visual studio? I checked the readme and the wiki, but no information on this was provided.

I cannot use MinGW / Clang / Cygwin / other tools than visual studio and MSBuild due to the company's policies.

[dlannan]

Use: script/build.bat This works for me. If you want to build within VS then you need to use the same build settings. Make sure you have the correct defines set.

[harikvpy]

In VS2019, this is what I had to do:

• Create a new project with Desktop Application profile
• Add the following preprocessor definitions: _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS;_SILENCE_ALL_CXX17_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS;WEBVIEW_API=__declspec(dllexport)
• Undefine the following: UNICODE;_UNICODE;
• Set Language -> Conformance mode to No (/permissive)
• Set Language -> C++ Language Standard to C++17
• Add the following directories to include paths (based on my directory structure, where I cloned the webviewrepo): ..\..\webview;..\..\webview\script\microsoft.web.webview2.1.0.664.37\build\native\include;
• Add the linker directory (again based on my directory structure): ..\..\webview\script\microsoft.web.webview2.1.0.664.37\build\native\$(PlatformShortName)
• Of course, copy webview.dll and WebView2Loader.dll to the application .EXE location (or somewhere in the path)

I hope I didn't miss anything out. If I didn't, this ought to work.