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Re: Build Server for MacOS

 

Hi Stefan

Do you have a macos yourself? If yes, you are probably better off
starting with resolving issues at
https://gitlab.com/kicad/packaging/kicad-mac-builder/-/issues

Adam Wolf got some new hardware for building for macos, the plan is to
add it as a gitlab runner. This has not been done yet.

Nick

On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 19:17, S.Weber <stifisax@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello KiCad team,
>
> I am new to kicad and was thinking about helping with the MacOS CI.
>
> Ian McInerney was mentioning on https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/merge_requests/218 that "currently there are no reliable macOS CI solutions for KiCad".
>
> >We don't currently have a reliable macOS CI solution. GitLab doesn't provide one out of the box, and the nightly build server sometimes has issues that aren't related to the code, but instead to packaging.
>
> I am wondering if someone is working on a "new" macOS CI or do have some experience there?
>
> I found two CIs provider which are free for MacOS open-source Projects:
>
> https://travis-ci.com/plans
>
> https://www.appveyor.com/pricing/
>
> => appveyor seems to directly support gitlab
> => travis only supports github => build needs to go over github mirror of kicad repo..
>
> So I think appveyor might be worth a try.
>
> What do you think?
>
>
> Stefan
>
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