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Geert Vancompernolle a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> This morning, I tried to compile the sources of KiCad on a Windows
> machine.
>
> My final goal is to compile it with VC++ 2005 Express Edition, but since
> this is not possible yet, I followed the "MinGW" way of working.
>
> So, I downloaded and installed MinGW and MSYS (according to the HowTo
> document for Windows compilation/installation) and also downloaded
> wxWidgets-2.7.0-1.
>
> I first compiled wxWidgets, without any problems.
>
> Next, I compiled the KiCad source codes. Again, without any problems
> (well, after finding out how things worked, to be honest).
>
> My executables (kicad.exe, eeschema.exe, pcbnew.exe, gerbview.exe and
> cvpcb.exe) are created without any warnings.
>
> After running make -f makefile.g95 install, the exe's are installed in a
> winexe directory.
>
> However, when double-clicking on one of the exe's (doesn't matter which
> one), I don't see any application starting up.
>
> Anyone has an idea what could be the cause of this problem?

Try to launch kicadexe from a console (under msys run ./path were in 
kicad.exe./kicad.exe ) in order to read the message errors...

I think the mingwm10.dll is not found (this is a part of mingw 
distribution).

I suggest to copy this dll in windows/system32.
It is in kicad distribution (see kicad/winexe).

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