How to build libyaml on Windows?

[WisdomFamily]

[zaenk]

Prerequisites:

• Download Visual Studio Installer
• From Visual Studio Build Tools, install Visual C++ build tools. Select the following components
  • Visual C++ Build Tools core features
  • VC++ 2017 version 15.9 v14.16 latest v141 tools
  • Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable Update
  • Windows 10 SDK (10.0.17763.0)
  • Visual C++ tools for CMake
  • Testing tools core features - Build Tools
• Install Cmake

Build:

• Clone the repository (the bundled tgz missing some files)
• Find the actual build steps to build a static library in the CI files: appveyor.yml

  cmake .
  cmake --build . --config Release --clean-first
  ctest -C Release
  

• This will generate Release/OFF.lib

Fix the output library name

The following diff shows how to fix output library name generated by cmake

--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ set (YAML_VERSION_MAJOR 0)
 set (YAML_VERSION_MINOR 2)
 set (YAML_VERSION_PATCH 2)
 set (YAML_VERSION_STRING "${YAML_VERSION_MAJOR}.${YAML_VERSION_MINOR}.${YAML_VERSION_PATCH}")
+set (YAML_STATIC_LIB_NAME "yaml")

 option(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS "Build libyaml as a shared library" OFF)
-option(YAML_STATIC_LIB_NAME "base name of static library output" yaml)

 #
 # Output directories for a build tree

Build DLL

cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON .
cmake --build . --config Release --clean-first
ctest -C Release

[jvelilla]

Prerequisites:

* Download Visual Studio Installer

* From Visual Studio Build Tools, install Visual C++ build tools. Select the following components
  
  * Visual C++ Build Tools core features
  * VC++ 2017 version 15.9 v14.16 latest v141 tools
  * Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable Update
  * Windows 10 SDK (10.0.17763.0)
  * Visual C++ tools for CMake
  * Testing tools core features - Build Tools

* Install Cmake

Build:

* Clone the repository (the bundled tgz missing some files)

* Find the actual build steps to build a static library in the CI files: [appveyor.yml](https://github.com/yaml/libyaml/blob/master/appveyor.yml)
  ```
  cmake .
  cmake --build . --config Release --clean-first
  ctest -C Release
  ```

* This will generate `Release/OFF.lib`

Fix the output library name

The following diff shows how to fix output library name generated by cmake

--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ set (YAML_VERSION_MAJOR 0)
 set (YAML_VERSION_MINOR 2)
 set (YAML_VERSION_PATCH 2)
 set (YAML_VERSION_STRING "${YAML_VERSION_MAJOR}.${YAML_VERSION_MINOR}.${YAML_VERSION_PATCH}")
+set (YAML_STATIC_LIB_NAME "yaml")

 option(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS "Build libyaml as a shared library" OFF)
-option(YAML_STATIC_LIB_NAME "base name of static library output" yaml)

 #
 # Output directories for a build tree

Build DLL

cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON .
cmake --build . --config Release --clean-first
ctest -C Release

By default it's 32 bits or 64 bits? How do you set an specific tag to compile to 32 or 64 bits? cmake . -DCMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM=x64?