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Message #17310
Re: Announcing work on providing windows nightlies
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From:
Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date:
Thu, 12 Mar 2015 13:26:22 -0400
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Cc:
KiCad Developers <kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On 3/12/2015 1:26 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
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> Den 12/03/2015 18.16 skrev "Wayne Stambaugh" <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto: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>
>> > <mailto: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.
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> 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.
It was just pushed to the repo yesterday so if you haven't upgraded in
the last day or so, your still using -2. I just tried to compile KiCad
using -3 with -std=gnu++11 and now it's choking on boost. Do yourself a
favor an do not upgrade until -4 is released.
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>> >
>> > 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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