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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here is a another teaser of the mingw64 version of kicad showing the
wxPython shell so it appears to be working.

On 10/4/2014 5:09 PM, Wayne Stambaugh 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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