scons error about mitsuba HOT 5 CLOSED

Using the provided SCons 2.5.1 should help. Here are steps that worked for me. First, opening the "Developer Command Prompt for VS 2017" from the Start menu. This assumes a default Python2.7 installation (from the official website).

# You probably have done that already
git clone https://github.com/mitsuba-renderer/mitsuba.git
cd mitsuba
git clone https://github.com/mitsuba-renderer/dependencies_win64.git
cd dependencies

# Unzip scons-2.5.1 from the dependencies directory, then navigate to that directory
# Install provided scons
C:\Python27\python.exe setup.py install

# Now go back to the Mitsuba root directory and select a configuration file
cd ..
copy build\config-win64-msvc2017.py .\config.py

# Start compiling
C:\Python27\scons.bat 

Note that you may see "Unknown compiler version" messages, for this I will refer you to issue #52.

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Thanks for providing the config.log information. From what I can read, it looks like the dependencies directory might be missing. The required dependencies are provided for convenience in this repository:
https://github.com/mitsuba-renderer/dependencies_win64

They should be placed at the root of your Mitsuba directory, with name dependencies. Does this help?
If you already have the dependencies directory but still encounter this issue, could you post more information about your system, compiler and scons version?

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Hey,

thanks for the reply,
the dependencies are exist.
I've installed scons-2.4.0.win-amd64.
system information: x64
processor: intel(R) core(TM) i7-8700K CPU @ 3.7 GHZ, 3701 Mhz, 6 core(s), 12 logical processor(s)
I'm using Visual Studio 2017, let me know how to find my compiler details if its necessary
or post another information.

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@merlinND , it works!
you are great, thank you very much.
indeed, I've got the message of "Unknown compiler version" and I fixed it following #52
and now it builds it correctly.
However, I still have problem in building the gui, I've got the message:

`This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin
''windows'' in '' '',

Available plattform plugins are: windows.

Reinstalling the application may fix the problem.

I reinstalled the Qt and scons again, I have 5.8 version of Qt.
I copied the "qwindows.dll" to "dist\platforms\qwindows.dll from the Qt
commented the unnecessary parts in qt5.py as @guoxx suggested in issue #52.

What else I can do?
I'll ask also in #52, if you have any insights about it so I would like to knew.

thanks!

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(Troubleshooting continued in issue #52, where workarounds are proposed)

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