compile and use Cantera with Visual Studio 2019

[litian SU]

Hi,

I'm trying to install and compile and use Cantera with Visual Studio 2019.
I've followed the steps of the instructions in:
https://gist.github.com/ischoegl/ab777f871a48d7f40ecc32c1c849faa3
However when I try to use 'scons build', I get the following error:
In file included from ext\googletest\googletest\src\gtest-all.cc:41:0:
ext\googletest\googletest/src/gtest.cc:86:32: fatal error: crtdbg.h: No such file or directory
 # include <crtdbg.h>  // NOLINT
                                ^
compilation terminated.
scons: *** [build\ext\googletest\googletest\src\gtest-all.o] Error 1
scons: building terminated because of errors.

If you have any advice what I could do to overcome this problem, I would really appreciate it.


Best regards,
lt SU

[Ray Speth]

Hi,

It looks like SCons is trying to compile using the MinGW compiler rather than VS2019. To compile using Visual Studio, you generally need to run SCons from a "Visual Studio Command Prompt" (there may be different command prompt options; I'm not sure exactly which one you want), and then activate your Anaconda environment. The other possibility is to specify "msvc_version=14.2" as an additional option when running "scons build....". This may or may not work depending on whether SCons can then find your Visual Studio installation.

Regards,

Ray

[litian SU]

Hi ray,

Thank you very much for your reply! I added toolchain = 'msvc' in cantera.config. It can be successfully build and install now.