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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wayne,

I think that package format is fine.  If anyone comes out of the woodwork
volunteering to build an NSIS installer, great, but this seems like a nice
step forward.

If we need to build on Windows, I can attach a Windows box to my Jenkins
cluster.

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer,
W&L

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On 11/3/2014 3:15 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> > 2014-11-03 20:21 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >> 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.
> >
> > Can one crosscompile that from linux?
> >
> > Nick
> >
>
> I would think so.  I'm guessing that if you use ArchLinux that you could
> even package the cross-compiled binaries.  I know that kicad has been
> cross compiled in the past on linux but I haven't tested it.  Of course
> you would have to cross compile all of the library dependencies which
> could be more problematic as there are quite a few patches required to
> build a mingw versions of Python and wxPython.  You can see all of the
> patches in the package file repo on github.
>
>
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