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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

I can inform that the new windows nightlies will be spiced. They use
the version recommended by Maciej, which currently is
99a20162d5038a328d335d11da69c9eee0549fdc of ngspice.

Additionally the new OSX nightlies are also spiced... but for now that
is just what is provided with a brew install ngspice. I have no idea
what version that is.

I use [3] to build ngspice.

[3] https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-winbuilder/blob/master/PKGBUILD-ngspice-git

2016-09-19 20:17 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
> The msys2 project rejected my ngspice-git package build pull request
> [1].  Apparently they don't want another git flavor of an existing
> package and would prefer that the existing ngspice package be patched.
> I honestly don't blame them.  Since I'm not sure which patch fixes
> ngspice and I've spent way more time on this than I wanted to, I'm
> deferring this issue to Orson since he made the decision to make ngspice
> a build dependency.  I'll leave my ngspice-git-package branch on my
> github clone of the mingw packages[2] for devs to experiment with the
> latest ngspice code if they feel the need.  Given that this seems to be
> an ongoing issue, I may create a new policy that if you add a new build
> dependency you cannot commit it to the product repo until it works
> across all platform without having to build from source.  Choose your
> dependencies wisely.
>
> [1]:
> https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/pull/1720#issuecomment-248019326
> [2]: https://github.com/stambaughw/MINGW-packages/tree/ngspice-git-package
>
> On 9/19/2016 9:22 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> 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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