It's a little bit frustrating, Wayne, thanks for the investigation, I hope you still keep some hair on head, I chose option 6….
May be that python-mingw could be used to cross-compile that python.exe from linux, I've done that before, I will try it. Definitely, cmake is way better than autotools, but some people is reluctant to change…. > I understand, fully. > > Even the "smart guys" who would use mingw, are too stupid to know that cygwin > is one the > worst ideas in the history of man, right after autotools. > > http://python-mingw.donbennett.org:8081/mywiki/ > > This is just stupid. > > These patches should have included a build package using CMake. Why spoil > the mingw > experience with cygwin? > > When the openocd guys rejected my CMake build scripts, that's when I left > that project. > They wanted to continue to use configure, and would not even commit the CMake > build > scripts in parallel. I will not maintain any build environment using > autotools. > > The rest of my life is short and I have gotten enormously stubborn about > wasting it on > crap like autotools and cygwin. So I get to quit opensource projects where > my time is > being wasted, openocd was a case in point. In about 60 days after leaving > that project I > rewrote the ARM9 stuff in stack consisting of C++ and Java and Groovy. > > KiCad has definitely been the beneficiary of some good choices along the way. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
