Running Cura from Source on Windows

Luc's Workflow.md

Luc's Workflow to build Cura on Windows

Part One

1. Clone cura-build-environment

   git clone https://github.com/Ultimaker/cura-build-environment
   

2. Run Developer Command Prompt for VS2015 as administrator and execute:

   cd cura-build-environment
   mkdir build
   mkdir install_dir
   cd build
   ..\env_win64.bat
   cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ^
         -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="C:\Users\loociano\workspace\cura-build-environment\install_dir" ^
         -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="C:\Users\loociano\workspace\cura-build-environment\install_dir" ^
         -G "NMake Makefiles" ^
         ..
   nmake
   

3. Update Windows PATH with the following entries:

   • C:\Users\loociano\workspace\cura-build-environment\install_dir\bin
   • C:\Users\loociano\workspace\cura-build-environment\install_dir\Scripts

4. Install dependencies

   pip3 install trimesh

Part two

1. Clone cura-build

   git clone https://github.com/Ultimaker/cura-build
   

2. In a regular Windows Command Prompt, as administrator, run:

   mkdir build
   cd build
   ..\env_win64.bat
   cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ^
   -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="C:/Users/loociano/workspace/cura-build/install_dir" ^
   -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=C:/Users/loociano/workspace/cura-build-environment/install_dir ^
   -DSIGN_PACKAGE=OFF ^
   -G "MinGW Makefiles" ..
   

   Verify that the python interpreter built in Part One is detected:

   Found Python3: C:/Users/loociano/workspace/cura-build-environment/install_dir/bin/python.exe (found version "3.5.7")
   ...
   -- Configuring done
   -- Generating done
   -- Build files have been written to: C:/Users/loociano/workspace/cura-build/build
   

3. Build and package:

   mingw32-make
   ...
   [100%] Packaging Projects...
   [100%] Built target packaging
   

4. This will create a package directory containing Cura.exe.