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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds great.

Adam Wolf

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hey Adam,
>
> The msys2 project uses pacman which is the package management tool used
> by arch linux.  It has a very simple package build file format.  One
> thing it does do, is it creates a psuedo install after it builds the
> package.  The psuedo install is just a temporary install path with the
> typical linux file system layout.  You should be able take the contents
> of the psuedo install path along with all of the dependency libraries
> and create a nsis installer.  There is an NSIS script in the installers/
> folder to create the windows installer.  I'm not sure if it includes
> pulling in all of the necessary library dependencies so it may have to
> modified but it should not be very difficult.  We could always just
> create msys2 packages which would be really easy.  Download and install
> msys2 (both 64 and 32 bit versions), install the packages required build
> kicad, run makepkg-mingw to build the packages, then push the packages
> to a public server along with an md5sum.  User's who have msys2
> installed can just grab the latest package file and use pacman to
> install it.  This is probably the path of least resistance.
>
> Wayne
>
> On 10/25/2014 12:27 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> > Hi Wayne,
> >
> > Are you using CPack for this at all?  I don't know hardly anything about
> > Windows, but I'm looking at packaging up KiCad for OS X (which appears
> > to be the last piece--I had a week of successful builds!), and while I
> > have a shell script to do this, if you're using CPack we might as well
> > make it cross platform.  On the other hand, if you're not, I'll just use
> > my script.
> >
> > Adam Wolf
> > Cofounder and Engineer
> > W&L
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Wayne Stambaugh
> > <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     I've been working on packaging KiCad on MSYS2 with mingw64 and
> mingw32.
> >      I have everything building including the full Python scripting.
> >     Unfortunately our current install paths when building with mingw
> don't
> >     match up with the msys/mingw file structure.  The msys/mingw file
> >     structure is the same as linux except for the library binaries which
> get
> >     installed in the bin/ folder in order for the executable to be able
> to
> >     find the libraries.  I propose that we change our windows install
> paths
> >     to be the same as linux except for the kiface libraries.  Our path
> >     search code can be simplified since windows and linux have the same
> >     relative install paths.  Our windows install would look like
> >
> >     # Path for executable and shared objects.
> >     ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/bin
> >
> >     # Path for documentation.
> >     ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/kicad/doc
> >
> >     # Path for demo projects.
> >     ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/kicad/demos
> >
> >     # Path for project templates.
> >     ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/kicad/templates
> >
> >     # Path for component libraries.
> >     ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/kicad/library
> >
> >     # Path for plugings.
> >     ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/kicad/plugins
> >
> >     # Path for data files.
> >     ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/kicad
> >
> >     # Path for footprint library files when no GitHub.
> >     ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/kicad/modules
> >
> >     # Path for 3D model libraries.
> >     ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/kicad/share/modules/packages3D
> >
> >     If no one objects to these changes, I will update our install paths
> >     accordingly and submit the kicad package build file to the msys2
> >     project.  Hopefully, soon you will be able to install msys2 and
> install
> >     kicad by running the `pacman -S`.
> >
> >     Thanks,
> >
> >     Wayne
> >
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