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Re: Development workflow

 

There is some tips to setup eclipse on
https://gist.github.com/johnbeard/895bad60e4716f7f9c77


2017-05-07 12:48 GMT+02:00 Thomas Kindler <mail_ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi!
>
> I'm just starting with KiCad development. I got it to compile on both MSys2 and
> Ubuntu, and did my first patches for practice.
>
> A full compile takes about 35 minutes on my machine. ccache can get this down to
> ~15 minutes, but doesn't help much if I touch a common header file.
>
> Also, I seem to have to do "make install", to actually try out KiCad. This will
> always build all applications, even if I only want to try out changes to Pcbnew.
>
>
> So - how do you work?
>
> - Is 30 minutes the expected turnaround time for trying out changs?
>
> - Is there a trick to only build, say, Pcbnew, and start it from the build
> directory without doing make install?
>
> - make install is also a problem if I want to keep multiple binary version of
> kicad side-by-side. It would be much nicer to just be able to start it from a
> build directory. But the kicad-launcher isn't able to start the other
> applications then.
>
> - Is there some documentation of how to set up Eclipse for rapid kicad
> development and debugging? I could figure it all out myself, but surely someone
> has done it before..
>
>
> best regards,
> thomas
>
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