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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/3/2014 3:55 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> 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.

Don't hold your breath on that one.  I don't expect to see a NSIS kicad
installer until the stable release.

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

I build it on windows first because I know it builds without any issues
and it's probably the easiest to implement.  Cross-compiling could be
implemented later.

> 
> Adam Wolf
> Cofounder and Engineer,
> W&L
> 
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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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