Issues while setting up the the OpenQl build dependencies for Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition

[bijeshkumar-kv]

Hello Team,

Good morning,

I wish to setup the OpenQl DEV environment in my laptop and once I am OK with the environment, I wanted to contribute to the project based on your consensus.

I am trying to setup the OpenQl development environment in my laptop, as part of the build dependency setup of Libqasm component, I land in an error while running the Python Setup.py Build/Install options. The error description shows a compatibility issue with Visual Studio 2022.

Requesting your support.

Note- I am following the instructions from the documentation mentioned in the below Url
https://openql.readthedocs.io/en/latest/developer/build.html#dev-build

The error details are as below.
libqasm/0.6.9: Running CMake.configure()
libqasm/0.6.9: RUN: cmake -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE="generators/conan_toolchain.cmake" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="C:/Users/user/.conan2/p/b/libqaa8b57b3e262e0/p" -DCMAKE_POLICY_DEFAULT_CMP0091="NEW" "C:/Users/user/.conan2/p/b/libqaa8b57b3e262e0/b"
CMake Error: Could not create named generator Visual Studio 17 2022

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libqasm/0.6.9: ERROR:
Package '04eda5d7267dd13162306bdd6f09c7abea09e550' build failed
libqasm/0.6.9: WARN: Build folder C:\Users\user.conan2\p\b\libqaa8b57b3e262e0\b\build\Release
ERROR: libqasm/0.6.9: Error in build() method, line 136
cmake.configure()
ConanException: Error 1 while executing
error: Unexpected exit code: 1
Command line: | 'C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.13_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python313\Scripts\conan.exe' create . --version 0.6.9 -s:h compiler.cppstd=20 -s:b compiler.cppstd=20 -s:h 'libqasm/:build_type=Release' -s:b 'libqasm/:build_type=Release' -o 'libqasm/:build_python=True' -o 'libqasm/:cqasm_python_dir=C:\Users\user\Desktop\OpenQL\Dependencies\libqasm\pybuild\build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-313\cqasm' -o 'libqasm/:python_dir=C:\Users\user\Desktop\OpenQL\Dependencies\libqasm\pybuild\build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-313\libqasm' -o 'libqasm/:python_ext=_libqasm.cp313-win_amd64.pyd' -o 'libqasm/*:shared=False' -b missing -tf ''

Thanks,
Bijesh Kumar