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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

No doubt I'm out of touch. :)  It's been at least 10 years since I used
msvs.  It's great that they have decided to support open source
development tools.  I'm may to to check it out when I get a chance.  I'm
guessing they have a minimal free version available or have they stopped
offering that?

On 3/12/2018 11:36 AM, Mark Roszko wrote:
> Way out of touch now Wayne ;)
> 
> VS can open CMake projects directly without generator. Also supports
> GDB.....MINGW....and even ships with Clang. MS even patched all their
> VC++ headers to be compatible with Clang.
> 
> 
> I haven't tried this yet though, but in theory it should be possible to
> run MSYS2/MINGW and debug via this new feature from last year that lets
> you configure toolchains and even use gdb:
> 
> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2017/07/19/using-mingw-and-cygwin-with-visual-cpp-and-open-folder/
> <https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2017/07/19/using-mingw-and-cygwin-with-visual-cpp-and-open-folder/>
> 
> In this example it is using MSYS2.
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 9:54 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     It's been a really long time since I've done this but you should be able
>     to tell cmake to create a VSxxxx project (`cmake -G "Visual Studio 14
>     2015 [arch]`") and then use msvs to build.  You might want to disable
>     python scripting, oce, and ngspice unless you feel like building msvc
>     variant of those dependencies.  You will also need a msvc build of boost
>     as well for the unit test library.  I'm pretty sure Simon Richter
>     creates msvs builds so he may have some more up to date information than
>     I do.
> 
>     Wayne
> 
>     On 3/9/2018 9:48 AM, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
>     > Dear Windows experts,
>     >
>     > I'm desperately trying to debug a segfault in a Windows build of
>     Kicad.
>     > So far I've been unable to pause the program in gdb, because gdb exits
>     > when I press Ctrl-C instead of pausing the application.
>     >
>     > I'm fed up with this 'unix style of doing things'.
>     >
>     > Could you help me set up a VS2015 project for building and debugging
>     > Kicad? Is there some tutorial?
>     >
>     > Cheers,
>     > Tom
>     >
>     >
>     >
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