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[Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Cirilo,

KiCad-Winbuilder honours KiCad's build system, and at the moment that
doesn't include a working method to compile python support into PCBNEW yet.
I will work on that in the near future, I expect other people are putting
effort into that too. Once the KiCad build system can support building a
python-enabled KiCad, KiCad-Winbuilder can be used to easily build it using
a portable version of python.

Hopefully it won't take too long before we can have a Windows version that
includes python! :D

Best Regards, Brian.


On 4 January 2013 20:48, Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo_bernardo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >________________________________
> > 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
> >
> >
> >Hi Guys,
> >
> >
> >Today I commit fairly significant changes to KiCad-Winbuilder.
> >
> >
> >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.
> >
> >
> >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.
> >
> >
> >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.
> >
> >
> >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:
> >
> >
> >cd kicad-winbuilder\env
> >make
> >cd ..
> >make
> >
> >
> >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.
> >
> >
> >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.
> >
> >
> >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.
> >
> >
> >Please feel free to spread the word and encourage people to upgrade.
> >
> >
> >Best Regards, Brian.
> >
> >
>
>
> 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
>
>