Need testers for branch development-aral on Windows

[aral-matrix]

Hello there! In case you are a user of OpenXLSX on Windows, I have a favor to ask:

In the development-aral branch, I have prepared a cmake configuration for OpenXLSX where all dependencies (nowide, pugixml, miniz/libzip) are removed from the OpenXLSX source code folders, and instead get pulled in via a combination of find_package + FetchContent (requires git to be installed).

I plan to eventually merge that branch into the master branch.

Before that, it would be nice if I could get some feedback from our Windows users on how they manage with the new configuration.

Please refer to

1. Build Instructions
2. Integrating into a CMake project structure
   and
3. How to compile & link a program against an installed(!) OpenXLSX library

Note: After step 1, if you want to install the library, it should be enough to execute make install or cmake install . from the build folder. This should install the library and dependencies on your system so that step no. 3 should be workable.

[jumoog]

I used this library via vcpkg and it worked without any problems

[aral-matrix]

Hi @jumoog - thank you for the feedback, but I believe you have to thank @bansan85 for this - Vincent has created the vcpkg configuration for OpenXLSX with some bigger patch files. (Ref: https://vcpkg.io/en/package/openxlsx)

I have addressed some of the issues patched in those files to streamline library installation, and the testers that I am looking for are those who can try to install OpenXLSX "from scratch" without using a package manager.

[aral-matrix]

closing this after merging changes into master. I have tested as well as I could, given the circumstances. Let's hope I did not break anything :)