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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The pacman pack format is pretty much a tar file with a few other useful
bits such as pre and post install stuff.  Here is the 64 bit package for
kicad:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/REPOS/MINGW/x86_64/mingw-w64-x86_64-kicad-git-r6791.8814d67-1-any.pkg.tar.xz.sig/download

You can download it and untar it and see the file layout.  If I was
really feeling ambitious, I could create an NSIS windows installer with
the binaries along with all of the mingw library dependencies but I just
don't have time for that.  MSYS2 itself is not required to run kicad.
It's only required to build kicad and use the pacman package manager.

On 11/3/2014 3:14 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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