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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Great work everyone!

Having good nightlies for the platforms should really cut down on the
packaging issues/bugs when we cut the next versioned release, and will
really help users to be able to use our work as we finish it!

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
W&L


On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 7:14 AM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Greetings
>
> Just to announce it for the people interested: Windows nightlies
> should soon be a reality.
>
> A week or so ago I started looking into packaging the windows builds
> that was created in MSYS2, where I made a script and upgraded the NSIS
> install script to make it work together, including python scripting.
> This currently seems to work. My work is currently hosted on [2], but
> I will try to merge it with [1] soon. I have stashed some builds on
> [3], that interested people can try out. Be aware that they are in
> testing, but feedback would be appreciated.
>
> I discovered that Brian Sidebotham was looking into making the kicad
> winbuilder use MSYS2, so I am working together with Brian Sidebotham
> on upgrading the kicad winbuilder to use the MSYS2 environment, which
> should ease the creation of the toolchain and the dependencies. This
> work is currently on [1].
>
> We hope to get the repo under the KiCad umbrella to keep it together
> in one place.
>
> For nightly builds Adam Wolf has offered a build server, so he will
> eventually start pushing builds to [4] as we do for the OS X builds.
>
> Regards
> Nick Østergaard
>
> [1] https://github.com/BrianSidebotham/KiCad-Winbuilder
> [2] https://github.com/nickoe/kicad-windows-nsis-packaging
> [3] http://www2.futureware.at/~nickoe/
> [4] http://downloads.kicad-pcb.org/
>
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