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[Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Travis,

KiCad-Winbuilder uses the MinGW-w64 distribution (which is what you'll
find on most Linux distributions too these days):
http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/download.php#mingw-builds

The MinGW install check is redundant these days, ever since I packaged
the environment with MinGW-w64, this is necessary because you may have
a different ABI or different exception model variant installed and the
downloaded wxPython release is built with mingw-w64-4.8.1-sjlj.

The path is sanitised in make.bat (via setenv.bat) so KiCad-Winbuilder
can never detect any other MinGW you have installed.

Best Regards, Brian.


On 3 February 2014 17:43, Travis Ayres <trayres@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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