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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tom,

I would prefer KiCad not be in the business of providing dependency
binaries.  I can't stop anyone from providing them but I would rather
developers focus on kicad development rather than our dependencies as
much as possible.  The whole point of removing all of the dependency
build code from v4 was specifically for this reason.  The amount of time
we were spending supporting this was significant.  I would prefer that
the projects provide their own binary installers or we do a better job
of choosing dependencies.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 03/12/2018 04:18 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
> On 12/03/18 19:10, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>  The context switching build
>> issue will most likely have to be fixed yet again if we choose to go
>> down this path.
> 
> Wayne,
> 
> One of the things that Windows does remarkably well is binary
> compatibility. We can just provide pre-built libcontext binaries (as
> well as binaries of every other dependency for Kicad), say, once a year,
> and with a very high probability they will work on every Windows box out
> there. I wouldn't worry much about libcontext, I'm more worried about
> code that MSVC might not like in Kicad - but as Mark & Jon reported,
> newer MSVC versions have fixed such interoperability issues, so I hope
> things will go smoothly. Simon has been running MSVC builds for a while,
> so he's likely more up-to-date than me in MSVC compatibility.
> 
> Tom
>