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Also allow Visual Studio 2026 to build from source

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
68/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
cmake, cpp
Domain
build-system

Research direction

The issue points to setup.py lines 992–993 and provides a Windows build command using CMake, Ninja, CUDA, and Visual Studio 2026. Read that version check and confirm how it affects source builds; compare it with the reported successful build. Done when Visual Studio 2026 is accepted for source builds without breaking existing supported-version checks.

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Description

I don't know where the info came from, This is either wrong or outdated:
https://github.com/Niko1221/Strata/blob/6f32ec070f23ced9f50e704d854d775da52591ab/setup.py#L992-L993

I just compiled strata with the following .bat script without any issues:

@echo off
call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\18\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64 >nul
cmake -G Ninja -S . -B ./build ^
  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ^
  -DSTRATA_ENABLE_CUDA=ON ^
  -DSTRATA_BUILD_TESTS=OFF ^
  -DCMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES=89 ^
  -DSTRATA_GGML_DIR=.\third_party\llama.cpp || exit /b 1
cmake --build ./build --target strata -j 8 && exit /b 0
echo   (the build stopped - trying it once more)
cmake --build ./build --target strata -j 8 || exit /b 1

As you can see I used Visual Studio 2026 (2026 = version 18)
Cuda version was:

> & "C:/Program Files/NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit/CUDA/v13.3/bin/nvcc.exe" --version
nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (c) 2005-2026 NVIDIA Corporation
Built on Tue_Jun__9_14:30:19_Pacific_Daylight_Time_2026
Cuda compilation tools, release 13.3, V13.3.73
Build cuda_13.3.r13.3/compiler.38244171_0
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