Has anyone built FEniCS on windows natively?

[Xiaoxing Cheng]

Hello everyone,

The situation is like this:

My group has its own solver that we want to connect to FEniCS. I succeeded on Linux, but many of my group members ask me if I can help them set up the development environment for FEniCS+our solver on Windows natively (docker is not acceptable in our case). 

I did some searching online and felt this would be a really difficult task for the following two reasons:

1. even conda doesn't have a windows version of FEniCS

2. I searched for lines that contains "WIN32" in the dolfin repository, and there are very few of them.

So I think I need to ask the community for wisdom.

Has anybody successfully built FEniCS and run some testings on Windows natively? If yes, could you share any experience with me? 

Thanks a lot!

Xiaoxing Cheng