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How to use Microsoft SEAL library for homomorphic encryption?

I want to use Microsoft SEAL library for homomorphic encryption in a university project. I have no prior experience on Visual Studio 2017 (15.9). After cloning SEAL from github, I opened the solution file and tried to build the projects. But it shows about 1954 errors. The first errors are -

E1696 cannot open source file "stddef.h" SEALExamples E:\Visual Studio Enterprise 2017\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023\include\atomic 15

E1696 cannot open source file "stdlib.h" SEALExamples E:\Visual Studio Enterprise 2017\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023\include\atomic 17

There are many other errors like this for "errno.h", "float.h", "time.h" etc. I think if I solved this errors, other errors will be gone. When I open an empty project, "stdlib.h" has no issue to be used. So, am I doing something wrong? How can this be solved?

Solution

  • Apparently it needed a specific version of windows SDK (10.0.16299). After installing it and selecting release mode instead of debug, everything worked.