Cmake Problem

[Lukmin1999]

Hello. I'm not sure if this is worth putting into Issues, since it is likely a problem on my end.

I'm trying to build Musescore on my computer at the moment. I've downloaded qt version 5.15.2, edited my environment variables, and downloaded and installed Cmake. However, when I open Musescore file on Visual Studio, there don't appear to be any solutions. When I try to make them myself by running cmake -P build.cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release, I get
could not find any instance of visual studio

I've tried changing the cmake build text to look for instances of Visual Studio 2022, since that is the version I have. I receive similar problems. What might I be doing wrong?

[Jojo-Schmitz]

Not sure we're ready yet for VS 2022, VS 2019 is what's currently being used

[HemantAntony]

This is a good place for your question (Our discord server would have also been good). Though I doubt I will be able to answer you question, can you tell me which line you changed and to what?

[Jojo-Schmitz]

msvc_build.bat is only prepared for VS 2017 and VS 2019 so far, and CMakeSettings.json and build.cmake only for VS 2019. At least the latter 2 would need to get adjusted, the former only if you're using that (I do for the initial setup)

[cbjeukendrup]

cmake -P build.cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" might help.

[HemantAntony]

I'm trying to test it out now. I'll tell you

[HemantAntony]

It works for me too

[Lukmin1999]

Is this worth making an issue or feature request? If so, I'd be interested in taking up working on it. I'm not too familiar with the ins and outs of CMake, so I'm thinking this would be a good chance to do so while helping out.

[Lukmin1999]

By the way, I tried using 2019 VS, but now I get an error that says "could not find:sndfile"

[cbjeukendrup]

"could not find:sndfile"

You'll also get this issue with VS 2022. For the solution, see this part of the MuseScore 3 compile instructions: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/developers-handbook/compilation/compile-instructions-windows-visual-studio#1.7_Additional_dependencies
Unfortunately, that has not yet been added to the MuseScore 4 instructions (or has it, meanwhile?).

[Lukmin1999]

Based on the pull request I saw, should VS 2022 now be useable?

[cbjeukendrup]

The pull request has not been merged yet, but you can make the changes locally, so that you can at least continue compiling MuseScore!