Instructions to build on Windows

[ezxpro]

It would help if there were at least some basic instructions on how to compile zeal on Windows.
I got VS Community 2022, the MSVC toolchain, Qt, CMake and the appropriate vs extensions, have configured them, but still there's just so much going on that I can't solve on my own...

[trollixx]

Build instructions can be found in the wiki but they are somewhat out of date. Building on Windows is pretty straightforward these days thanks to vcpkg. I'll try to update the docs as well.

[wngtk]

I am trying to build zeal on Windows. But I do not know how to package it to msi file. cmake --build .\build\ --target package --config Release -j8 generated installer is empty.

git clone https://github.com/zealdocs/zeal.git
cd zeal
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg.git --depth=1
.\vcpkg\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat
.\vcpkg\vcpkg install --triplet=x64-windows
cmake -B .\build\ -S . "-DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake"
cmake --build .\build\ --config Release -j8

[trollixx]

Please see the updated wiki page. Now featuring step by step instructions for building on Windows based on my own environment.