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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/19/2016 1:04 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> Spiced windows builds are not yet performed, mostly because I saw those
> issies with it and it seemed like someone were trying to make a ngspice
> pkgbuild.

Orson made the original ngspice pkgbuild for the latest stable release
of ngspice but the issue was found after the fact.  I just hacked up a
version of it to clone from the ngspice git repo.

> 
> But now, I guess we can start to enable it.

Thanks Nick.  It would be nice to get as much testing on this as
possible before the next stable release.  Windows users represent a
large portion of our user base so that's a lot of extra testers.

> 
> 
> Den 19/09/2016 02.23 skrev "Wayne Stambaugh" <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>>:
> 
>     I just submitted a pull request[1] for a new ngspice-git package for the
>     msys2 project so you can build the latest version of ngspice from the
>     head of the project git repo.  This will allow you to build a version of
>     ngspice that resolves the know simulation issues in the current stable
>     release of ngspice.  I also grab the latest documentation in pdf format
>     from the ngspice website since AFAIK you cannot build the latex
>     documentation from source on msys2.  If you can't wait for the msys2
>     project to accept the pull request, you can grab the PKGBUILD file from
>     the ngspice-git-package branch of my fork [2] of the mingw packages.
>     Are we enabling spice on windows nightly builds yet?  I haven't had time
>     to look.  If not, this should make life easier.
> 
>     [1]: https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/pull/1720
>     <https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/pull/1720>
>     [2]:
>     https://github.com/stambaughw/MINGW-packages/tree/ngspice-git-package <https://github.com/stambaughw/MINGW-packages/tree/ngspice-git-package>
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