@Brian, thank you for all of your hard work getting kicad-winbuilder to work. I know it was a monumental task just getting Python to build using the old mingw32 platform.
@Nick, thank you for taking up the charge for creating nightly build windows installers. While msys2/mingw makes building kicad much easier than the legacy msys1/mingw32 system, creating an installer on top of that was no small task. Thanks again to both of you for all of your hard work. Cheers, Wayne On 10/6/2015 11:37 AM, Brian Sidebotham wrote: > I've just killed KiCad-Winbuilder on launchpad ( > https://launchpad.net/kicad-winbuilder ), but fear not! > > Nick Østergaard is now maintaining the MSYS2/mingw-w64 version of > KiCad-Winbuilder on GitHub ( > https://github.com/nickoe/KiCad-Winbuilder ) > > Thanks to Nick who's been working on the MSYS2 version of the tool > tool such that it's capable of creating the release candidate > installer and is now being used for providing snapshot releases via > the KiCad website ( http://kicad-pcb.org/download/windows/ ) and > thanks to anyone who's provided patches/pull requests and the like to > get it sorted out. > > Thanks also to Orson for his support when we needed it to get the GAL > up and running on Windows. > > With the addition of the Recent Builds to the KiCad website there's no > need for users to build their own using KiCad-Winbuilder anymore - > just download a recent build and don't suffer the pain of building on > Windows; Building on Windows is really no fun for anyone! > > I'm surprised the latest download on Launchpad had reached 30,000+ > downloads! That's a lot of computing power that's been directed at > building KiCad so I'm sure the Recent Builds part of the website is > going to be really popular. > > Best Regards, > > Brian. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
