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[Travis Ayres <trayres@xxxxxxxxx>]

Brian,

How would you have bumped up the requirement for MinGW to 4.8.2? I just
checked on TDM-GCC, and I don't see the upgrade to 4.8.2 (although TDM is
repackaged MinGW, so it might not be fully up to date).

I just looked at the KiCad-Winbuilder CMake file, and I think I'm running
4.8.1 because of my locally installed MinGW. Is there a way I could execute
KiCadWinbuilder.cmake with the mingw_local_NOT_FOUND = 1?

I'm re-running KicadWinbuilder on a machine with more memory to see if I
get different results. I'll let everyone know the results.



On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 2:52 AM, Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> It's always worth when you can filling in bug reports against
> KiCad-Winbuilder. It helps focus my time and makes we aware of things
> I don't know about. Although I can't fix the internal MinGW error
> (Which I've never seen!), seeing a bug report means I probably would
> have bumped the compiler up to 4.8.2 which has been out for a while
> now.
>
> I didn't move to the next release of MinGW in KiCad-Winbuilder-3.3
> because I'd never seen any problems with 4.8.1 - it's likely 4.8.2 has
> a tonne of bugfixes in it though.
>
> KiCad-Winbuilder tries to be as isolated as is possible under Windows
> so as not to be affected by any system versions or settings, but
> clearly differences can still be present.
>
> Out of interest Travis, how much RAM do you have installed? Sometimes
> problem arise because of lower spec's. I have an Intel Core i7 (so
> essentially 8 cores), and 16Gb RAM with a PCIe SSD - it's a quick and
> capable system. Building KiCad is intensive on RAM use, particularly
> when using parallel build jobs. Usually you get out-of-memory errors,
> but sometimes you just get odd behaviour and crashes instead depending
> on each allocation's error handling.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Brian.
>
> On 3 February 2014 04:31, Travis Ayres <trayres@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > It looks like one of the errors is an internal MinGW error when I try to
> > build.
> > Attached are some of my logs from the build process of Kicad-Winbuilder.
> >
> > -Travis
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Simon Turner
> > <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> OK build success but I have to start kicad with the runkicad.bat file ?
> >>
> >> What have I actually done ? can I transfer this to other computers or
> move
> >> it on my current computer ?
> >>
> >> I opened the CvPCB program and it can't find any pcb footprints, is this
> >> all due to upgrading to the latest version that does things differently
> or
> >> is something broken ?
> >>
> >> Simon
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 02/02/2014 15:49, Simon Turner wrote:
> >>
> >> whoops might be I got in a muddle and used the old winbuilder version,
> >> trying again.......
> >>
> >> Simon
> >>
> >>
> >> On 02/02/2014 15:44, Simon Turner wrote:
> >>
> >> OK It's been running, yes on windows 7
> >>
> >> I now have:
> >>
> >> CMake error at kicadwinbuilder.cmake:1110 <file>: file COPY cannot find
> >> "C:/kicad-winbuilder-3.2/src/library/library"-
> >> press any key to continue
> >>
> >> So I got some sort of a build out of it, the layout of the kicad manager
> >> window is a bit messed up, the program icons are too far left and
> encroach
> >> on the file list and some are missing.
> >>
> >>
> >> The PCB program won't start because it can't find libcairo-2.dll, the
> >> icons for the programs to the left of it are missing. Oh and does it
> really
> >> need to take up 2.5GB of space ?
> >>
> >>
> >> Simon
> >>
> >>
> >> On 02/02/2014 13:54, Milan Horák wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm happy to hear this.
> >>
> >> Did look into your logs - it seems like there was problem with too long
> >> path to a file required to compile process.
> >>
> >> Shortening the path should help (seems it did).
> >>
> >> Milan
> >>
> >> Dne 2.2.2014 14:29, Simon Turner napsal(a):
> >>
> >> Well I put it in C: and it's still building long after it would have
> >> died so must be working. Thank you, let you know how it turns out.
> >>
> >> Simon
> >>
> >> On 02/02/2014 12:42, Simon Turner wrote:
> >>
> >> I have, and the previous logs were from it but I was not in C: so I'm
> >> running again from C:
> >>
> >> Simon
> >>
> >> On 02/02/2014 12:35, Milan Horák wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> you should download latest kicad-winbuilder (version 3.3) -
> >> https://launchpad.net/kicad-winbuilder
> >>
> >> Milan
> >>
> >> Dne 2.2.2014 12:43, Simon Turner napsal(a):
> >>
> >> See coments below
> >> On 02/02/2014 11:28, Milan Horák wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> it should be simple (read 'Works for me'):
> >>
> >> - Enter 'kicad-winbuilder/env' directory and run 'make.bat' *No
> >> make.bat in this folder, using the one from the main folder does
> >> not work*
> >> - Wait for the script to finish
> >> - In 'kicad-winbuilder' directory run 'make.bat' *Thats all i was
> >> trying but got errors, log files attached*
> >> - In 'kicad-winbuilder' directory run 'RunKiCad.bat' *ok haven't done
> >> that yet and the make fails*
> >>
> >> Milan
> >>
> >> Dne 2.2.2014 11:50, Simon Turner napsal(a):
> >>
> >> I tried but got errors and was told to check the logs that told me
> >> nothing other than error2 and error3, I just gave up. I ended up with
> >> 1.25GB of cmake files and stuff and noactual programs.
> >>
> >> I found the instructions a bit minimal, any chance of a better
> >> instruction being written for it ?
> >>
> >> Simon
> >>
> >>
> >> On 01/02/2014 21:52, Ed Johns wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Simon,
> >>
> >> Have you tried using  kicad winbuilder? It has the full build
> >> environment which downloads the latest source.
> >>
> >> It is on launchpad as well.
> >>
> >> - Ed
> >>
> >> On Feb 1, 2014 4:47 PM, "Simon Turner"
> >> <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> <mailto: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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