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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The MSYS2 file layout is configured very much like Linux so that is
probably why the stock version worked.  The if(MINGW) code in our custom
version broke finding the include file path.  The MSYS2 version of cmake
is 3.0.2 so they are keeping things up to date.

On 10/4/2014 5:23 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> With regards to Linux, my FindPythonLibs changes have been accepted into
> Cmake proper for a while, and the official bug was marked resolved last
> week, so I don't think there's any necessity for a custom module for
> Linux anymore.
> 
> Adam Wolf
> 
> On Oct 4, 2014 4:10 PM, "Wayne Stambaugh" <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     After years of struggling to get KiCad to build with the wxPython
>     scripting enabled with mingw on Windows, I've finally managed to pull it
>     off.  Take a look at the attached screenshot.  You'll notice that all of
>     the major KiCad features are enabled.  This is due in large part to the
>     excellent work of the msys2 project.  I still have to send them a patch
>     for their package of Boost 1.56 (thanks Tom) and then all of the
>     dependencies are already packaged.  No more building dependencies from
>     source on mingw, yeah!!!  They all ready have a skeleton package set up
>     for kicad so it shouldn't take long to a have a packaged version of a
>     fully functional build of KiCad for windows.  Once this is in place, it
>     should be fairly easy for someone to create an autobuilder to provide up
>     to date mingw64 and mingw32 packages for testing.  It should be possible
>     to roll up all of the dependencies and create a windows installer as
>     well.  This would greatly aid in testing.
> 
>     On that note, I had to remove our custom FindPythonLib.cmake in order to
>     get it to work properly.  There are some questionable if( MINGW ) blocks
>     in our custom version that don't make sense to me.  Would who ever
>     modified the stock CMake version and added to our source please let me
>     know why these changes are necessary so I can figure out a solution.  If
>     I don't hear from you over the next few days, I'm removing our custom
>     version of FindPythonLib.cmake.
> 
>     Wayne
> 
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