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Re: Building KiCad on windows

 

Hi guys,
Simon, thanks for pointing out the problem.

The windoz build for kicad available from the kicad official web page is
dated 07/07/2013

Can we consider this version too old?

Regards
Fabrizio
On 01/02/2014 10:47 PM, "Simon Turner" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>  Hello All
>
> Just thought I'd raise something. It seems that the time between releases
> is lengthening as more work is being done to make things much better. I did
> once manage to build a fresh version of KiCAD on ubuntu and was very
> pleased with the progress but this was the only way of getting the most up
> to date features. I have since abandoned ubuntu (thout shalt now screw with
> my hardware thank you on pain of being removed !) and have tried to build
> the latest version on windows to no avail. I'm no programming expert (mcu's
> in arduino is my limit so far) but I'm no idiot and can follow instructions
> but instructions for windows builds seem to lack and everything bangs on
> about ubuntu.
>
> Is there any chance of making it easier to build KiCAD on windows or am I
> missing some information out there ?
>
> Thanks for all your work,
>
> Simon
>
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