ah ok, I'll see if I can find a version that supports that.

This was the error that I was getting.
and it was pretty much everywhere that you had this:
char foo[somenumber];
or
char foo[strlen(str)];

Oh wait I forgot, that didn't quite fix the problem, I needed to do something this

Ok, I'll still make the changes as they are necessary for it to compile.

Definitely, I did that first thing, and cmake works great!
However that was as far as it went bcs MSVC threw out some rather odd errors.
The easiest to fix being a C3863 error in three places.
mainly when something like this occured

I'll work on this for the next couple of days/weeks