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[Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>]

As a packager, you get good control over what happens. Solving this
problem could be done with a batch file:

@ECHO OFF

IF "%KISYSMOD%"=="" SET KISYSMOD=%~dp0\..\share\kicad\modules
IF "%KISYS3DMOD%"=="" SET KISYS3DMOD=%~dp0\..\share\kicad\modules\packages3d

start kicad.exe

which fixes the Windows install wherever it's been installed with the
desktop shortcut and start menu items needing the bat file reference
instead of the kicad executable. You'd just have to figure out setting
the icon of the shortcut now because it won't be the KiCad icon, but
you should be able to create a shortcut using the exe as an icon
reference.

Anyway, good luck!

Brian.

On 7 December 2015 at 22:05, Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That's what the patch does now.. Someone using msys2  for anything other
> than compiling is a bit strange though.
>
> On Dec 7, 2015 4:59 PM, "Wayne Stambaugh" <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 12/7/2015 3:48 PM, Mark Roszko wrote:
>> > Updated patch to use AssignDir instead of me stupidly assigning to
>> > wxFilename.
>> >
>> > I added an empty var check(so it uses default instead) but it's
>> > pointless. Windows disallows
>> > empty env vars. On other systems if its empty you have configuration
>> > issues and you should be fixing them, not kicad.
>>
>> Using the msys2 environment you can assign an empty env variable so we
>> should definitely test the return string to see if it's empty and fall
>> back to the default if it is empty.
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >
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