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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

As mentioned by others, MSVC is not _officially_ supported by the
KiCad project as a development environment, BUT Simon is maintaining a
branch  with patches that will enable you to build KiCad with MSVC and
it is build tested on
http://ci.kicad-pcb.org/job/windows-kicad-msvc-head/, it is not
runtime tested. I don't even think it has been runtime tested at all.

But I also hear that the latest VC supposedly is going or is
supporting gcc and clang with debugging. I have not looked into that.

The branch is lp:~sjr/kicad/msvc and AFIK, you just need to apply this
on the latest kicad branch to get the latest. At least on Jenkins it
checks out lp:kicad and then bzr merge lp:~sjr/kicad/msvc.

And then normal cmake with the MSVC generator and it should build,
given you have the depends set up and can be found.

2015-11-06 1:24 GMT+01:00 Stefano Rossi <chimera.stefano@xxxxxxxxx>:
> I would like to know how I could contribute to kicad on windows?
>
> Is http://kicad-pcb.org the to-go page?
>
> Is it possible to compile using Visual Studio? If not, can the make system
> be added to VS? I like the editor and its code completion features.
>
> Where can I see what needs contributing, goals, some easy tasks for newbs to
> get "wrapped around" the kicad code base?
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