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[Jason Whiteman <whitemanjason@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm Linux fluent and prefer the unix environment but other constraints keep
Windows as my primary operating system which pulls Kicad in the Windows
direction.  I could VM to Kicad - but I'd rather continue down the Windows
path.  Looking long-term, the issues associated with Windows tend to argue
for more development work in the win environment than against it.

Even without scripting, wxPython seems to be part of the libraries pulled -
at least using winbuilder.  I'm not sure at the moment how to build with it
removed completely.  I think wxMessageBox is used everywhere as one example
regardless of scripting.

It seems windows debugging is still TBD(eveloped) at least by using
winbuilder.  I did try to launch from winbuilder to my "own" toolchain -
but quickly ran into issues and have migrated back to something that works.
  Even though I do have this crash -- it doesn't seem to affect anything
except my mouse click count to dismiss the error.  And the user experience
if others see the same results in Windows.

I'll take the previous advice related to Kicad structure (I did find the
referenced exit code) to continue down the printf path I'm currently on.

Regards,
Jason





On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 10:48 AM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Le 06/07/2014 19:04, Dick Hollenbeck a écrit :
> >>>
> >>>      Is there advice on how to get the debug to work w/winbuilder?
> >
> >
> > I don't know winbuilder.  However I would guess that its usefulness for
> a "developer" is
> > diminished after installation of the toolchain and the goodies.
> >
> > After that you will have to become master of:
> >
> > 1) CMake,
> > 2) bzr, and
> > 3) the debugger.
> >
> > If you ever had to run winbuilder again on that same machine, I'd be a
> little surprised.
>
> An other advice:
>
> If you know Linux, and if you want to debug the wxPython version of
> Kicad, use Linux.
>
> From my point of view, Winbuilder is not a suitable environment to debug
> Kicad.
> But it is an exceptional powerful tool to build Kicad from scratch.
>
>
>
> --
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
>
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