faiss-gpu buiild fails on windows 11

[biyani701]

Summary

Cloned the code from https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss.git. Ran cmake and tried compiling resulting faiss.sln with Visual Studio 2022. However, the build is not successful.
========== Build: 18 succeeded, 9 failed, 0 up-to-date, 1 skipped ==========

Platform

Visual Studio 2022

OS: Windows 11

Faiss version: latest

Installed from: building from source

Faiss compilation options:
"G:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\mkl\2024.1\env\vars.bat"
cmake -B build -Wno-dev -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=G:/vishal/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake -DFAISS_ENABLE_GPU=ON -DFAISS_ENABLE_PYTHON=ON -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBLA_VENDOR=Intel10_64ilp_seq -DFAISS_OPT_LEVEL=avx2 -DMKL_LIBRARIES="%MKL_PATH%\mkl_intel_lp64.lib;%MKL_PATH%\mkl_core.lib;%MKL_PATH%\mkl_sequential.lib;%MKL_PATH%\mkl_intel_thread.lib" .

Running on:

• CPU
• [X ] GPU

Interface:

• C++
• Python

Reproduction instructions

"G:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\mkl\2024.1\env\vars.bat"
cmake -B build -Wno-dev -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=G:/vishal/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake -DFAISS_ENABLE_GPU=ON -DFAISS_ENABLE_PYTHON=ON -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBLA_VENDOR=Intel10_64ilp_seq -DFAISS_OPT_LEVEL=avx2 -DMKL_LIBRARIES="%MKL_PATH%\mkl_intel_lp64.lib;%MKL_PATH%\mkl_core.lib;%MKL_PATH%\mkl_sequential.lib;%MKL_PATH%\mkl_intel_thread.lib" .
Open faiss.sln in VS 2022

Got below errors:
Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Details
Error C2664 'void faiss::gpu::GpuIndex::search(faiss::idx_t,const float *,faiss::idx_t,float *,faiss::idx_t *,const faiss::SearchParameters *) const': cannot convert argument 5 from 'long *' to 'faiss::idx_t *' 4-GPU G:\vishal\faiss\tutorial\cpp\4-GPU.cpp 95
Error C2664 'void _mm_prefetch(const char *,int)': cannot convert argument 1 from 'const float *' to 'const char *' faiss_avx512 G:\vishal\faiss\faiss\utils\distances_fused\avx512.cpp 81
Error C1083 Cannot open include file: 'sys/time.h': No such file or directory demo_sift1M G:\vishal\faiss\demos\demo_sift1M.cpp 24
Error C1083 Cannot open include file: 'sys/time.h': No such file or directory demo_ivfpq_indexing G:\vishal\faiss\demos\demo_ivfpq_indexing.cpp 13
Error C1083 Cannot open include file: 'sys/time.h': No such file or directory demo_imi_pq G:\vishal\faiss\demos\demo_imi_pq.cpp 13
Error C1083 Cannot open include file: 'unistd.h': No such file or directory bench_ivf_selector G:\vishal\faiss\benchs\bench_ivf_selector.cpp 9
Error C1083 Cannot open include file: 'sys/time.h': No such file or directory demo_imi_flat G:\vishal\faiss\demos\demo_imi_flat.cpp 13
Error C2664 'void faiss::Index::search(faiss::idx_t,const float *,faiss::idx_t,float *,faiss::idx_t *,const faiss::SearchParameters *) const': cannot convert argument 5 from 'long *' to 'faiss::idx_t *' 5-Multiple-GPUs G:\vishal\faiss\tutorial\cpp\5-Multiple-GPUs.cpp 68
Error C2664 'void faiss::gpu::GpuIndex::search(faiss::idx_t,const float *,faiss::idx_t,float *,faiss::idx_t *,const faiss::SearchParameters *) const': cannot convert argument 5 from 'long *' to 'faiss::idx_t *' 4-GPU G:\vishal\faiss\tutorial\cpp\4-GPU.cpp 57
Error LNK1181 cannot open input file '..\Release\faiss_avx512.lib' swigfaiss_avx512 G:\vishal\faiss\build\faiss\python\LINK 1

unistd.h and sys/time.h are not supported on windows.
What is the possible solution for this problem?