Solar2d build from source Windows 10

Hello, I am trying to build from source on windows 10 platform

  1. Created folder C:\Users\Dev\XG

  2. Cloned source code
    CD C:\Users\Dev\XG
    git clone --recursive GitHub - coronalabs/corona: Solar2D Game Engine main repository (ex Corona SDK)

  3. Installed CMake for Windows : cmake-3.28.3-windows-x86_64.msi

  4. Installed : Visual Studio 17 2022 ( Community Edition )

  5. Opened in VS Code folder C:\Users\Dev\XG

  6. Opened Terminal in VS Code

  7. In VS Code Terminal executed following commands :
    PS C:\Users\Dev\XG> cd corona
    PS C:\Users\Dev\XG\corona> make .

  8. Terminal output :

CMake Deprecation Warning at CMakeLists.txt:1 (cmake_minimum_required):
Compatibility with CMake < 3.5 will be removed from a future version of
CMake.

Update the VERSION argument value or use a … suffix to tell
CMake that the project does not need compatibility with older versions.

– Selecting Windows SDK version 10.0.16299.0 to target Windows 10.0.19045.
YEAR: 2100
BUILD_NUMBER: 9999
CORONA_ROOT: C:/Users/Dev/XG/corona
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:41 (message):
CMakeList.txt is not ported to current OS: Windows

– Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

You can find the build instructions for Windows in here:

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Super. Thank you very much!