There is some tips to setup eclipse on https://gist.github.com/johnbeard/895bad60e4716f7f9c77
2017-05-07 12:48 GMT+02:00 Thomas Kindler <[email protected]>: > Hi! > > I'm just starting with KiCad development. I got it to compile on both MSys2 > and > Ubuntu, and did my first patches for practice. > > A full compile takes about 35 minutes on my machine. ccache can get this down > to > ~15 minutes, but doesn't help much if I touch a common header file. > > Also, I seem to have to do "make install", to actually try out KiCad. This > will > always build all applications, even if I only want to try out changes to > Pcbnew. > > > So - how do you work? > > - Is 30 minutes the expected turnaround time for trying out changs? > > - Is there a trick to only build, say, Pcbnew, and start it from the build > directory without doing make install? > > - make install is also a problem if I want to keep multiple binary version of > kicad side-by-side. It would be much nicer to just be able to start it from a > build directory. But the kicad-launcher isn't able to start the other > applications then. > > - Is there some documentation of how to set up Eclipse for rapid kicad > development and debugging? I could figure it all out myself, but surely > someone > has done it before.. > > > best regards, > thomas > > _______________________________________________ > 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
