Compiling Fox on windows (windows 10 and visual studio 2019 instructions)#

  • Get Visual Studio 2019 from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/fr/downloads/. Install it with C++ desktop tools, include CLI (command=line interface), C++ clang

  • Download objcryst from git (vincefn/objcryst), rename the root ‘objcryst’ directory to ‘Fox’

  • Download cctbx.tar.bz2 and newmat.tar.bz2 (from vincefn/objcryst) in the Fox directory and uncompress them (e.g. with 7-zip)

  • Delete the Fox/cctbx/include/boost directory

  • Download boost 1.74 (7z format) from https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.74.0/. Unzip in Fox and rename the directory to ‘boost’

  • Open the visual studio command prompt. In the Fox/boost directory, run `bootstrap` and then `b2 --build_dir=..\boost_build toolset=msvc release threading=multi --build_type=complete`.

  • Next download the wxwidgets 3.1.4 installer and run it with default installation, select the installation directory as Fox/wxWidgets

  • Open the visual studio command prompt. In FoxwxWidgetsbuildmsw, run `nmake /f makefile.vc BUILD=release RUNTIME_LIBS=static` as per wxWidgets/wxWidgets

  • Download fftw-3.3.5-dll32.zip from http://www.fftw.org/install/windows.html, uncompress it as Fox/fftw

  • In a visual studio command prompt, in the Fox/fftw directory, execute `lib /def:libfftw3f-3.def`

  • Open Fox_vc12.sln from Fox/Fox/, and then you can build Fox in debug or release version

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