>________________________________ > From: Brian Sidebotham <[email protected]> >To: KiCad Developers <[email protected]> >Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2013 5:41 AM >Subject: [Kicad-developers] KiCad-Winbuilder changes > > >Hi Guys, > > >Today I commit fairly significant changes to KiCad-Winbuilder. > > >Firstly, the script can still be used as-was in case anyone wants to do that, >but it'll be less supported from here on. > > >As part of the changes there is a complete dev environment included in a >binary release. This is now the recommended way to use KiCad-Winbuilder >because the dependencies reduce to NIL. Included in the binary release is >KiCad-Winbuilder, MinGW, CMake and Bazaar. > > >The new methodology for building KiCad is to download the binary release and >unzip somewhere. Then, run the make.bat file (No need to even start a command >line, just double click the make.bat file to run) and KiCad is built by >KiCad-Winbuilder using the included build environment. > > >If someone wants to build the environment too, the only dependency is to have >cmake 2.8.2 or greater installed. The complete build environment and KiCad can >be built with: > > >cd kicad-winbuilder\env >make >cd .. >make > > >It's nice to get the dependency level to zero, and now everything runs in a >contained environment so contamination from MSYS installs and other versions >of the compiler, etc. do not interfere with the build. > > >I had to register a new project on Launchpad though to get this to work as >there is no standalone binary release for Bazaar outside of an installer. > > >I hope that this is cool with everybody - I think it'll make life much easier >for some people. Although there have been very few bugs reported regarding >KiCad-Winbuilder. > > >Please feel free to spread the word and encourage people to upgrade. > > >Best Regards, Brian. > >
Excellent - I think I'll download that so I can check how my 3D model software builds under Windows. Do you have a script or something to pull in Python or instructions on which prebuilt binary to pull? - Cirilo _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
