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Re: Building KiCad on windows

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Hi,
and I am compiling KiCad on VirtualBox Windows XP machine, limited to one core of Phenom 955 and 512MB RAM :-) 

Milan

Dne 3.2.2014 14:09, Simon Turner napsal(a):

That is interesting, one thing I did notice was that my BOINC that was
running on 3 cores and 1 GPU crashed at sometime when i was building
KiCAD, I have 8GB of RAM on a AMD buldozer 4 core proccessor.

Simon


On 03/02/2014 10:52, Brian Sidebotham 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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