Compile Mitsuba0.6 with VS2017 on Win11

[micheleconni]

I am not able to compile Mitsuba on Windows11: following the suggestions given in #61 and running C:\Python27\scons.bat from VS2017's Developer Command Prompt and in the Mitsuba root directory, I get the following results:

scons: Reading SConscript files ...
Using configuation file "D:\Code\mitsuba\mitsuba-master\config.py"

scons: warning: VC version 15.0 not installed.  C/C++ compilers are most likely not set correctly.
 Installed versions are: ['14.0']
File "D:\Code\mitsuba\mitsuba-master\build\SConscript.configure", line 96, in <module>

scons: warning: VC version 15.0 not installed.  C/C++ compilers are most likely not set correctly.
 Installed versions are: ['14.0']
File "D:\Code\mitsuba\mitsuba-master\build\SConscript.configure", line 96, in <module>
Checking for Qt 5.x... yes
Checking for cl ...no
Could not compile a simple C++ fragment, verify that cl is installed! This could also mean that the Boost libraries are missing. The file "config.log" should contain more information.

The config.log contains the following:

file D:\Code\mitsuba\mitsuba-master\build\SConscript.configure,line 137:
	Configure(confdir = .sconf_temp)
scons: Configure: Checking for cl ...
.sconf_temp\conftest_0.cpp <-
  |#include <sstream>
  | int main(int argc, char **argv) {
  | std::ostringstream oss;
  | return 0;
  | }
cl /Fo.sconf_temp\conftest_0.obj /c .sconf_temp\conftest_0.cpp /nologo /Oi /Ot /Oy /Ob1 /Gs /GF /Gy /fp:fast /D WIN32 /D WIN64 /W3 /EHsc /GS- /GL /MD /D MTS_DEBUG /D SINGLE_PRECISION /D SPECTRUM_SAMPLES=3 /D MTS_SSE /D MTS_HAS_COHERENT_RT /D _CONSOLE /D NDEBUG /D OPENEXR_DLL /openmp /nologo /D GLEW_MX /Idependencies\include\openexr /Idependencies\include\openexr /Iinclude /Idependencies\include
conftest_0.cpp
link /nologo /SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE /MACHINE:X64 /FIXED:NO /OPT:REF /OPT:ICF /LTCG /NODEFAULTLIB:LIBCMT /MANIFEST /OUT:.sconf_temp\conftest_0.exe /LIBPATH:dependencies\lib boost_system-vc141-mt-1_64.lib boost_filesystem-vc141-mt-1_64.lib boost_thread-vc141-mt-1_64.lib msvcrt.lib ws2_32.lib Half.lib zlib.lib .sconf_temp\conftest_0.obj
.sconf_temp\conftest_0.obj : fatal error LNK1112: module machine type 'x86' conflicts with target machine type 'x64'
scons: Configure: no

First of all, why does scons keep telling me that "VC version 15.0 not installed"? I downloaded the last version available of Visual Studio 2017, i.e. the 15.9.44.
Second of all, I used scons-2.5.1 from dependencies_win64.git and config-win64-msvc2017.py from the build folder as config.py, and my pc is 64 bit, so why do I have problems with the machine type?

[chaosink]

Please check this: #52 (comment)
Hope it's the same issue as yours.