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[Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>]

On a side note, you can actually run GDB/MSYS2 inside VS2017+ with the
debugger working just fine.
Just a side note and not saying anything bad about this patch.

On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 12:39 PM Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Tom,
>
> Have you looked at vcpkg?
> https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg
>
> It's basically Microsoft's C++ library manager that integrates with CMake
> standalone and VS2017/VSCode/VS2019.
> The downside is the libraries get built on each user's machine for a given
> arch you specify but not that bad.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 12:17 PM Tomasz Wlostowski <
> tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This patchset enables building KiCad in MS Visual Studio (version 2017,
>> not tested on earlier versions). It is largely based on patches &
>> library builds by Simon Richter (thanks a lot!), with some improvements:
>> - no MSVC-specific patches other than setting the compiler parameters.
>> - no need for require boost::context workarounds as libcontext now
>> supports MSVC through native Windows Fiber API.
>> - prebuilt environment [1], containing the right versions of libraries
>> and tools (CMake & CMake modules). The supplied libraries currently
>> support only debug x86_64 targets.
>>
>> Some of you might ask why bother with MSVC support? Here's a bunch of
>> reasons:
>> - A debugger that really works. GDB under Windows offers,
>> euphemistically speaking, sub-optimal user experience (very slow, Ctrl-C
>> kills the debugger instead of stopping the application being debugged,
>> enormous size of debug symbols).
>> - Much faster builds. GCC is very fast under Unix systems, but under
>> Unix emulation (MINGW) all the speed disappears.
>> - MSVC runtime libraries are quite different from the GNU/OSX ones. This
>> has already led to discovery of some critical bugs (StrNumCmp()). In
>> general. Building and testing KiCad with a non-GCC/Clang compiler can
>> only improve the quality of our code.
>> - I'm hoping new developers will join us. After all, 90% of desktop
>> software is made for Windows, most of it is written in VS and proficient
>> developers don't like switching their IDEs too often.
>>
>> Happy testing,
>> Tom
>>
>> PS. Could someone of our website maintainers give some space to host the
>> archive [1] on kicad-pcb.org?
>>
>> [1] https://cernbox.cern.ch/index.php/s/UaFwaznK4258kZC
>>
>>
>>
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> Mark
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Mark