Building OpenXR-SDK with Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition

[cyborg07]

Hello,
I have cloned the SDK : GitHub - KhronosGroup/OpenXR-SDK: Generated headers and sources for OpenXR loader. on windows and tried building it using cmake .

mkdir build\win64
cd build\win64
cmake -G "Visual Studio [Version Number] Win64" ..\..

I am using Visual Studio 2022 community edition ( on trial for 30 days)

info :

• Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022 964-bit) version 17.16

what should be the cmake(last line) command for this version ,

I tried with cmake -G "Visual Studio 17 2022 Win64" ( retuned error )

cmake -G "Visual Studio 17 2022 Win64" ..\..
CMake Error: Could not create named generator Visual Studio 17 2022 Win64

Regards,
S

[carsten_neumann]

That’s really a cmake question and should probably be taken to their forums.

See the output of cmake --help:

...
The following generators are available on this platform (* marks default):
  Visual Studio 17 2022        = Generates Visual Studio 2022 project files.
                                 Use -A option to specify architecture.
* Visual Studio 16 2019        = Generates Visual Studio 2019 project files.
                                 Use -A option to specify architecture.
  Visual Studio 15 2017 [arch] = Generates Visual Studio 2017 project files.
                                 Optional [arch] can be "Win64" or "ARM".
...

For VS 2019,2022 you no longer specify the architecture as part of the generator name, but with the -A command line argument:

cmake -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" -A x64 ..\.. 

[cyborg07]

Thanks @carsten_neumann , it helped and I generated and then built the SDK . But I still doubt i am getting the final output.
Below are the log for generating the Solution file(.sln) and below that is the log os the built solution in the VS 2022

Generated files logs :

- Could NOT find Vulkan (missing: Vulkan_LIBRARY Vulkan_INCLUDE_DIR) (found version “”)
– Looking for pthread.h
– Looking for pthread.h - not found
– Found Threads: TRUE
– Could NOT find JsonCpp (missing: JsonCpp_INCLUDE_DIR JsonCpp_LIBRARY)
– Could NOT find glslc, using precompiled .spv files
– Looking for secure_getenv
– Looking for secure_getenv - not found
– Looking for __secure_getenv
– Looking for __secure_getenv - not found
– Looking for timespec_get
– Looking for timespec_get - found
– Found and will use pre-generated xr_generated_dispatch_table.h in source tree
– Found and will use pre-generated xr_generated_dispatch_table.c in source tree
– Found and will use pre-generated xr_generated_loader.hpp in source tree
– Found and will use pre-generated xr_generated_loader.cpp in source tree
– Configuring done
– Generating done
– Build files have been written to:

Built using Visual Studio 2022 :

6>Building Custom Rule - STMicroelectronics/2022/AR-VR/Open-XR/OpenXR-SDK/OpenXR-SDK/CMakeLists.txt
7>------ Skipped Rebuild All: Project: INSTALL, Configuration: MinSizeRel x64 ------
7>Project not selected to build for this solution configuration
========== Rebuild All: 5 succeeded, 0 failed, 2 skipped ==========

Regards,
S

[ryliepavlik]

that build looks fine to me. There are optional deps and optional projects, no problem there.