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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo_bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: KiCad Developers <kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2013 5:41 AM
>Subject: [Kicad-developers] KiCad-Winbuilder changes
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>Hi Guys,
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>Today I commit fairly significant changes to KiCad-Winbuilder.
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>Firstly, the script can still be used as-was in case anyone wants to do that, but it'll be less supported from here on.
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>As part of the changes there is a complete dev environment included in a binary release. This is now the recommended way to use KiCad-Winbuilder because the dependencies reduce to NIL. Included in the binary release is KiCad-Winbuilder, MinGW, CMake and Bazaar.
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>The new methodology for building KiCad is to download the binary release and unzip somewhere. Then, run the make.bat file (No need to even start a command line, just double click the make.bat file to run) and KiCad is built by KiCad-Winbuilder using the included build environment.
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>If someone wants to build the environment too, the only dependency is to have cmake 2.8.2 or greater installed. The complete build environment and KiCad can be built with:
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>cd kicad-winbuilder\env
>make
>cd ..
>make
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>It's nice to get the dependency level to zero, and now everything runs in a contained environment so contamination from MSYS installs and other versions of the compiler, etc. do not interfere with the build.
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>I had to register a new project on Launchpad though to get this to work as there is no standalone binary release for Bazaar outside of an installer.
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>I hope that this is cool with everybody - I think it'll make life much easier for some people. Although there have been very few bugs reported regarding KiCad-Winbuilder.
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>Please feel free to spread the word and encourage people to upgrade.
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>Best Regards, Brian.
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Excellent - I think I'll download that so I can check how my 3D model software builds under Windows.

Do you have a script or something to pull in Python or instructions on which prebuilt binary to pull?

- Cirilo