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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the information everyone.  Maybe some day when I have a few
spare seconds and am feeling motivated, I will take a look at it.

Wayne

On 3/12/2018 12:46 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
> The free version is actually very complete for many use
> cases: https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/compare/
> 
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 12:36 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     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/>
>     > <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>
>     > <mailto: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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