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Re: Announcing work on providing windows nightlies

 

Den 12/03/2015 18.16 skrev "Wayne Stambaugh" <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
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> On 3/12/2015 12:00 PM, Jonatas wrote:
> > Great job,
> >
> > Last week I made a compilation test using own msys2 64bis packages
> > (mingw_x86_64 *). He did compile kicad in 64bis successfully. Not tested
> > it working yet, but the interface opens normally.
> >
> > It will be great to have build night of windows. Compiling from source
> > is painful and takes time.
> >
> > I suggest you have the binary version of the 64bit kicad. Currently
> > kicad-WinBuilder makes only 32 bits of binary of kicad.
> >
> > greetings,
> >
> > Jonatas Evaristo
> > Electronic Engineer
> >
> > 2015-03-12 9:14 GMT-03:00 Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>>:
> >
> >     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].
>
> FYI.  Using the msys2/mingw64 builds of wxWidgets 3.0.2-3, wxWidgets is
> compiled with -std=gnu++11 which breaks the KiCad build.  I'm guessing
> that KiCad will build with the -std=gnu++11 option but I haven't tried
> it yet.  I filed a bug report so I'm guessing it will be fixed soon so
> you may run into problems.  You can always downgrade the wxWidgets
> package to 3.0.2-2.

I have not experinced any compilation issues, although I would like to use
the new docs from ciampix repo and get the GUI translations in an more
lightweight repo, for example in the new doc repo or even a standalone git
repo. I am able to split the repo and keep comnit history.

Byt maybe I am just not on -3. I will have a look later.

> >
> >     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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