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[Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wayne,

Long term there is good news, VCPKG exists. https://github.com/
Microsoft/vcpkg  right now its separate but eventually it'll be part of VS.
(But it works now).

It's like msys....but for MSVC and it builds packages locally and puts them
in a central store. I think most of  Kicad's depedencies are there, I
actually started to work on seeing if Kicad would compile with it but
didn't get far before being distracted.


On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 5:33 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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
> >
>
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Mark