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Re: Windows Builds

 

Were the windows builds ever fixed?
I downloaded 5.0 today and get a wxWidgets assert simply from clicking on
tools menu in Pcbnew.
[image: kicadassert.png]
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 6:34 AM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I'm fine with creating a packaging document.  We could add it to the
> developers documentation or it could also be an external document with a
> link in the compiling doc.
>
> Wayne
>
> On 7/23/2018 8:40 AM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> > Agreed, Wayne. The macOS 5.0.0-1 build is uploading right now. It is a
> > Release build.
> >
> > I have a small set of packaging tests I perform on releases before
> > uploading them.  It *really* saved my bacon with the macOS release,
> > and it sounds like it would have been helpful with the Windows
> > release.  What do we think about moving them, along with other
> > packager-oriented updates and directives, into its own documentation
> > section?  This should help build package unity, and also help clean up
> > the the 5.1 and later announcements.  (They won't need to have
> > packager-oriented updates, since that's all in a single section in the
> > docs).  If it seems OK but no one else is excited about it, I
> > volunteer to coordinate this.  It goes along with another V6-timeline
> > KiCad project of mine.
> >
> > Adam
> > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 6:52 AM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I would prefer that we create release builds (CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release)
> >> for the stable releases.  Debug builds are fine for nightly builds.
> >>
> >> On 7/23/2018 12:07 AM, Mark Roszko wrote:
> >>> Done.
> >>>
> >>> Wouldn't be bad if the wxAsserts were squashed :X
> >>> But then again some of them come from wx internally in annoying ways.
> >>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 12:03 AM Adam Wolf
> >>> <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Ok, this sounds bad.
> >>>>
> >>>> Can someone (Marek?) pull the macOS build and revert the macOS
> download page, please?  I'm running extremely low on sleep from the last
> two nights of KiCad hacking and I am literally in bed already.
> >>>>
> >>>> I will regenerate the macOS build with Release instead in
> approximately 8 hours.
> >>>>
> >>>> Adam
> >>>>
> >>>> On Sun, Jul 22, 2018, 10:48 PM Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Welp, I poked Nick. It looks like the stable-debug build got packaged
> >>>>> instead of the stable build config (I can reproduce the asserts).
> >>>>> Though the executables are suspiciously not huge like they should be.
> >>>>> On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 11:30 PM Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> No, It's because asserts are being triggered.  These are disabled
> (normally) in Release builds.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> -S
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Am So., 22. Juli 2018 um 20:28 Uhr schrieb Mark Roszko <
> mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Is it because the installer exe is huge?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> That's because the footprint libraries are now part of the
> installers
> >>>>>>> and they are absolutely massive. (4GB uncompressed)
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> the installed files look fine to me though? The kiface files would
> be
> >>>>>>> hundreds of megs themselves if they had debug symbols but they are
> at
> >>>>>>> "normal" levels.
> >>>>>>> On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 11:16 PM Seth Hillbrand <
> seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Hi Devs-
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I'm seeing some reports (lp:1783037) that indicate the Windows
> build may be compiled CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo instead of Release.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Can anyone confirm this?  Is there a reason to do this for
> Windows?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> -Seth
> >>>>>>>>
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> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> --
> >>>>>>> Mark
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> Mark
> >>>>>
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