Just an update, firstly thank you very much @Pebaz for all your work on adding a Windows build script and documentation in your PR #18

I was able to build it on Windows, but the script didn't work out of the box. The build script installs eigen, libccd, octomap with no problems, but when it comes to installing fcl, at the end of the installation process at this line https://github.com/Pebaz/python-fcl/blob/master/requirements/build_win32.ps1#L91 I find that at this point in the script, it actually hasn't created C:\Program Files (x86)\fcl\{include,lib}. This means that the next step in the script, which runs setup.py fails (https://github.com/Pebaz/python-fcl/blob/master/setup.py#L28).

I worked around it by manually creating the fcl dir in Program Files and manually creating the include and lib folders based on the build artifacts and bit of guessing. After this step, it works and I can import fcl in Python 3.7!

I then ended up with an fcl directory with 4 dll files inside, a ccd.dll dynamicedt3d.dll octomap.dll and octomath.dll.

However, I then tried copying over this fcl dir onto another Windows computer to see if it would run there, but it failed with ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.. To debug this, I used Dependency Walker to check what DLLs loaded and which did not. Dependency Walker complained about a bunch of missing api-ms-core*.dll files but from what I read online that is due to Dependency Walker being out of date and I'm testing on the latest Windows OS. However, it did point out some missing DLLs, so I copied over vcruntime140_1.dll vcruntime140.dll and then it worked. I am not experienced in this so I don't know if this is the right approach ;)

I have uploaded my build here, if others may find it useful:

https://blenderbim.org/builds/fcl-py37-win.zip

I think it is possible to turn it into a *.whl package and submit to PyPi with just a tiny bit more work ... I am happy to help with testing and reporting my experience but I don't have experience to finish this off...

Windows Support #17

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