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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne,

I'm still focusing on the Mac stuff, but it's looking good.  I am not
familiar with most of this Windows stuff, so could you clarify: would the
output of the automated msys2 package builder would be a file that pacman
can install?

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
Wayne and Layne, LLC

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I just noticed that the MSYS2 project got my kicad package built and is
> available for public consumption.  They didn't get the latest package
> changes that includes the documentation yet but I suspect that it will
> happen soon.  This is a complete build of kicad including Python
> scripting.  You can install on windows by simply installing msys2
> (either the 32 bit or 64 versions) by downloading the installer from
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/Base/i686 or x86_64
> installing msys2, opening the msys2 shell, and running:
>
> pacman -Syu
>
> to update all the default installed packages.  Close the msys2 shell and
> reopen it and install kicad by running:
>
> pacman -S mingw-w(32 or 64)-(i686 or x86_64)-kicad-git
>
> All of the dependencies will automatically be installed along with
> kicad.  Kicad will be installed in msys_install_path/mingw(32 or
> 64)/bin.  You will have to configure your system and add any start menu
> and/or desktop links manually.
>
> The other plus is that you can keep up with the latest and greatest
> kicad simply by using git to clone the packages from
> https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages and running makepkg-mingw to
> build the most recent version of kicad.  This builds a pacman package of
> kicad that can be installed by running:
>
> pacman -U new-kicad-package-file
>
> As soon as I get the time, I will add the libraries to the package and
> update the windows build notes in the kicad source.  I hope someone can
> find the time to set up a automated msys2 package builder.  It should be
> fairly straight forward.
>
> Wayne
>
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