Building on Windows

Prerequisites

The following software packages should be installed:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 (link)
CMake 2.8.11 or higher (link)
Boost C++ Libraries (link)
Qt5.6 or higher (link)
Python 3.x (link)

Configuring & building Boost with Python 3 support

First, ensure that the MSVC environment variables are available at the command line by typing in the following commands at prompt (adjust to where your Visual Studio is installed):

cd "\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC"
vcvarsall x86

With the Boost libraries ideally extracted to the home directory (i.e. C:\boost_1_63_0\...), use a command line application to cd into the Boost directory and run the following commands:

bootstrap --with-python3
.\b2