I did reduce it down so that it was just the windres.exe from the MSYS2 package, and got the following result:
BevanWeiss@BevanWeiss-PC MSYS /C/KiCad/KiCad-Winbuilder/test folder $ /C/KiCad/KiCad-Winbuilder/msys64/mingw64/bin/windres.exe --version GNU windres (GNU Binutils) 2.25.1 Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) any later version. This program has absolutely no warranty. BevanWeiss@BevanWeiss-PC MSYS /C/KiCad/KiCad-Winbuilder/test folder $ /C/KiCad/KiCad-Winbuilder/msys64/mingw64/bin/windres.exe -I"/C/Kicad/KiCad-Winbuilder/test folder" gcc: error: folder: No such file or directory C:\KiCad\KiCad-Winbuilder\msys64\mingw64\bin\windres.exe: preprocessing failed. BevanWeiss@BevanWeiss-PC MSYS /C/KiCad/KiCad-Winbuilder/test folder $ /C/KiCad/KiCad-Winbuilder/msys64/mingw64/bin/windres.exe -I"/C/Kicad/KiCad-Winbuilder/test\ folder" gcc: error: folder: No such file or directory C:\KiCad\KiCad-Winbuilder\msys64\mingw64\bin\windres.exe: preprocessing failed. So I'm pretty sure that it's an issue with this version of windres. If someone knows where I should raise the bug report then I'd be happy to hear about it. I've worked around it by renaming my username and home directory within MSYS2. So I can start to have a look at some code now… anything on the TODO list that might be a good introduction to the KiCad sourcecode? Thanks for the reply, Regards, Bevan Weiss -----Original Message----- From: Nick Østergaard [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, 3 January 2016 9:15 PM To: Bevan Weiss <[email protected]> Cc: KiCad Developers <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Trouble compiling under windows I don't know much about windres, but I just tested on linux with spaces in the path to the source dir and spaces in the build dir name, and that built just fine. Maybe there is still some quotes that is missing in CMakeModules/MinGWResourceCompiler.cmake. 2016-01-02 16:04 GMT+01:00 Bevan Weiss <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > > > > Apologies for the spam on this, however I’m having a slight issue when > trying to setup and compile a Windows development environment for Kicad. > > I’ve used the Winbuilder platform, which has gotten me this far, so > that I’ve got a properly setup mingw environment. > > It also appears to have pulled in all the appropriate dependencies (as > far as I can tell anyway). > > > > However I’ve run into this error message… > > > > [ 48%] Building CXX object > common/CMakeFiles/common.dir/geometry/shape_file_io.cpp.obj > > [ 48%] Linking CXX static library libcommon.a > > [ 50%] Built target common > > [ 50%] Compiling kicad's resource file > > gcc: error: Weiss/MINGW-packages/mingw-w64-kicad-git/src/kicad/kicad: > No such file or directory > > C:\KiCad\KiCad-Winbuilder\msys64\mingw64\bin\windres.exe: > preprocessing failed. > > kicad/CMakeFiles/kicad.dir/build.make:61: recipe for target > 'kicad/CMakeFiles/kicad.dir/kicad_rc.obj' failed > > make[2]: *** [kicad/CMakeFiles/kicad.dir/kicad_rc.obj] Error 1 > > CMakeFiles/Makefile2:2217: recipe for target > 'kicad/CMakeFiles/kicad.dir/all' failed > > make[1]: *** [kicad/CMakeFiles/kicad.dir/all] Error 2 > > make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... > > Scanning dependencies of target bitmap2component > > > > I’ve found the issue after some further investigation. > > It appears that whichever version of windres.exe is in msys2 doesn’t > respect spaces in paths (even when passed with double quotes). My > googling says this should have been fixed way back in 2007, however > perhaps it’s a regression (or something got lost in the MSYS2 stuff). > > > > Apart from the obvious of changing the folder location to not have a > space, are there any other workarounds that people know of? > > Is this something that should be raised with the MSYS2 people? (my > quick googling suggests that perhaps they just don’t care about such > ‘Windowisms’ > like folder names with spaces). > > > > > > > > Bevan Weiss > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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