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[Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 13 March 2015 at 11:37, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 3/12/2015 5:48 PM, Brian Sidebotham wrote:
>> On 12 March 2015 at 17:48, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 3/12/2015 1:37 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>>>> 2015-03-12 18:26 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 3/12/2015 1:26 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Den 12/03/2015 18.16 skrev "Wayne Stambaugh" <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>>> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>>:
>>>> [snip]
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Do you have a link to the report? I can't find it in the open issues
>>>> at Alexpux/MINGW-packages on github.
>>>
>>> I filed it on the old SourceForge bug tracker here:
>>>
>>> http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/tickets/138
>>
>> Nick, thank-you for posting this to the list!
>>
>> Wayne,
>>
>> Thanks for the confirmation. I was bit by this last night while trying
>> to test the KiCad-Winbuilder stuff. I soon realised that it was doomed
>> after the wxWidgets-3 push. Hopefully they'll get it sorted out pretty
>> quickly.
>
> I just upgraded this morning and the -5 build of wxWidgets has already
> been released.  I'll give the msys2 folks credit, they get things fixed
> very quickly given the size and scope of the project.

Yep, I saw that. They're very active which is encouraging.

>>
>> Thanks for reporting the bug, looks like they're getting on with it
>> pretty quickly.
>>
>> This is exactly why it makes sense for us to use the pacman stuff to
>> build with; Because it's one build system that we're all trying to
>> support. Plus, it means no more maintenance of external projects like
>> wxwidgets-cmake, etc. for me! Phew!
>
> I really am impressed by what the msys2 project has accomplished.  It
> certainly makes life easier building KiCad on windows.  There already is
> a PKGBUILD file for kicad which I created for the msys2 project.  It
> should be as simple as running a nightly build using makepkg-mingw.
> Unfortunately, it's an all in one package which includes the docs and
> libraries so it's rather larger.  The msys2 folks seemed to prefer that
> I package kicad that way so I didn't argue with them about it.  For our
> purposes, we could split the package any way we prefer.

That is all we do. That way, we're aligned. The packaging is fine,
because we can then choose what we want to do - Build our own
installer with/without docs, with/without libraries, etc.

I don't think it'll take us much more effort to get to a place where
it can build installers that can be used. Nick's already had that done
manually for a while and automating it more so it is KiCad-Winbuilder
has proved to be pretty straight forward too.

Thanks for your excellent work on the packaging btw - it's been a
pleasure to build KiCad with MSYS2!

Best Regards,

Brian.