MSVC compatibility

This replaces !73 (closed)

Updating the outdated branch (merge of develop or rebase) is rejected by GitLab due to issues with author ECA verification (see eclipsefdn/helpdesk#2844 (closed))

Contents are already reviewed in !73 (closed)

CI showed issues during execution, which have been fixed by an additional commit (d12f735d)

cmake/global.cmake

@@ -56,8 +56,10 @@ if(USE_CCACHE)
   set(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_LAUNCHER ccache)
 endif()
 
-set(CMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG "-g -O0")
-set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG "-g -O0")
+if(NOT WIN32)
+  set(CMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG "-g -O0")
+  set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG "-g -g -O0")
+endif()
 
 if(MINGW)
   if(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE STREQUAL Debug)
@@ -112,6 +114,7 @@ endif()
 if(WIN32)
   set(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX "C:/OpenPASS" CACHE PATH "Destination directory")
   add_compile_definitions(WIN32)
+  add_compile_definitions(NOMINMAX)  #we use c++ min and max from <limits> this prevents windows.h from defining min and max
   add_compile_definitions(BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB)
   add_compile_definitions(BOOST_ALL_DYN_LINK)
   add_compile_definitions(_USE_MATH_DEFINES)