Building ParaView-Superbuild in windows 10 - cmake

Question

I'm trying to build the ParaView-Superbuild (https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview-superbuild) on Windows 10 64x.
I cannot manage to get it to work. I just ran from error to error. Currently I'm stuck at:
CMake Error at superbuild/projects/win32/boost.cmake:5 (message):
At least Visual Studio 9.0 is required
Call Stack (most recent call first):
superbuild/cmake/SuperbuildMacros.cmake:690 (include)
superbuild/CMakeLists.txt:145 (_superbuild_discover_projects)
using Cmake 3.13.10-rc1 as generator for Ninja. I have Cygwin64 installed and I'm using the GCC compiler
The C compiler identification is GNU 7.3.0
The CXX compiler identification is GNU 7.3.0
Since I thought that the error has something to do with the compiler I tried to switch to the installed VS2017 compiler. However, the build process will then crash with
CMake Error at C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.13/Modules
/CMakeTestCCompiler.cmake:52 (message):
The C compiler
"C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2017/Enterprise/VC/Tools
/MSVC/14.15.26726/bin/Hostx86/x64/cl.exe"
is not able to compile a simple test program.
It fails with the following output:
Change Dir: C:/paraview-superbuild/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp
Run Build Command:"C:/Ninja/ninja.exe" "cmTC_915a7"
[1/2] Building C object CMakeFiles\cmTC_915a7.dir\testCCompiler.c.obj
[2/2] Linking C executable cmTC_915a7.exe
FAILED: cmTC_915a7.exe
cmd.exe /C "cd . && "C:\Program Files\CMake\bin\cmake.exe" -E vs_link_exe
--intdir=CMakeFiles\cmTC_915a7.dir --manifests -- C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1
\2017\ENTERP~1\VC\Tools\MSVC\1415~1.267\bin\Hostx64\x64\link.exe /nologo
CMakeFiles\cmTC_915a7.dir\testCCompiler.c.obj /out:cmTC_915a7.exe
/implib:cmTC_915a7.lib /pdb:cmTC_915a7.pdb /version:0.0 /machine:x64
/debug /INCREMENTAL /subsystem:console kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib
winspool.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib comdlg32.lib
advapi32.lib && cd ."
RC Pass 1: command "rc /foCMakeFiles\cmTC_915a7.dir/manifest.res
CMakeFiles\cmTC_915a7.dir/manifest.rc" failed (exit code 0) with the
following output:
The system cannot find the file specified
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
CMake will not be able to correctly generate this project.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:3 (
I don't know how to fix the error using the GCC compiler when the VS one is not working at all. Sadly, I couldn't find any help on the Paraview website.
Has somebody managed to build it and can show me step by step how to do it?
And no, I don't want to use Linux here.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Here is a reliable way to build ParaView Superbuild on windows
Install Visual Studio 2013 community with all C++ related tools
Install cmake
Install git bash
Install Ninja
Install Qt 5.9.2 VS2013
Install other potential dependencies
open git bash
then :
cd C:/
mkdir pv
cd pv
git clone git#gitlab.kitware.com:paraview/paraview-superbuild.git
mv paraview-superbuild pvsb
mkdir pvsb_b
cd pvsb
git submodule update --init --recursive
Open Visual Studio Native Command X64
then :
cd C:\pv\pvsb_b
cmake-gui
configure paraview-superbuild accordingly to your need
ENABLE_qt5 and USE_SYSTEM_qt should be ON
generate
close cmake-gui
ninja