On 9 October 2014 10:01, Benoît Roehr <[email protected]> wrote: > > Le 09/10/2014 08:36, Lorenzo Marcantonio a écrit : >> >> On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 11:33:39PM +0200, Benoît Roehr wrote: >>> >>> Does someone have a turnkey solution for building and running eeschema >>> alone >>> ? Can it be done by tweaking winbuilder ? (help help !) >> >> Well, if you only touch eeschema the rebuild will only recompile that! >> >> So I see no needs for tweakings... >> > You answered exactly my concern ! I was searching a way to speed up the > compilation. > Ok, so now, I'm digging into the cMake script to build kicad from local > source. I'll find this I think.
KiCad-Winbuilder is not a great way to develop code, but if you have it on your computer and you want to investigate the sources, you can at least do that. Once you've compiled once, use the enterenv.bat batch file to enter a console with the KiCad winbuilder environment setup. From here you can move to the build directory and use the command "mingw32-make eeschema" to build just eeschema, or else mingw32-make by itself to build everything (that requires building). Running make.bat is not going to be good if you're making local changes because you'll likely hit conflicts at some point and everything will become a mess. Just investigate and make changes, then when you want to update to the latest version of KiCad you can enter the kicad source directory and use "bzr diff > mychanges.diff" to keep track of your changes in a diff file, followed by bzr revert to remove your changes from the tree. You can then safely run make.bat again to update and compile everything. As make.bat checks for the latest documentation and KiCad source code it is much quicker to enter the environment and issue the make commands directly. You'll have to run eeschema from the build directory, or else manually copy it across to the kicad\bin folder to use RunKiCad.bat Lastly, if you do want to develop KiCad I would strongly urge moving to Linux for development because it's just soooo much easier and faster! We always require heavy testing on Windows, but developing on Windows is a real pain. Good Luck anyway! 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
