Sounds great. Adam Wolf
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@verizon.net> wrote: > Hey Adam, > > The msys2 project uses pacman which is the package management tool used > by arch linux. It has a very simple package build file format. One > thing it does do, is it creates a psuedo install after it builds the > package. The psuedo install is just a temporary install path with the > typical linux file system layout. You should be able take the contents > of the psuedo install path along with all of the dependency libraries > and create a nsis installer. There is an NSIS script in the installers/ > folder to create the windows installer. I'm not sure if it includes > pulling in all of the necessary library dependencies so it may have to > modified but it should not be very difficult. We could always just > create msys2 packages which would be really easy. Download and install > msys2 (both 64 and 32 bit versions), install the packages required build > kicad, run makepkg-mingw to build the packages, then push the packages > to a public server along with an md5sum. User's who have msys2 > installed can just grab the latest package file and use pacman to > install it. This is probably the path of least resistance. > > Wayne > > On 10/25/2014 12:27 PM, Adam Wolf wrote: > > Hi Wayne, > > > > Are you using CPack for this at all? I don't know hardly anything about > > Windows, but I'm looking at packaging up KiCad for OS X (which appears > > to be the last piece--I had a week of successful builds!), and while I > > have a shell script to do this, if you're using CPack we might as well > > make it cross platform. On the other hand, if you're not, I'll just use > > my script. > > > > Adam Wolf > > Cofounder and Engineer > > W&L > > > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Wayne Stambaugh > > <stambau...@verizon.net <mailto:stambau...@verizon.net>> wrote: > > > > I've been working on packaging KiCad on MSYS2 with mingw64 and > mingw32. > > I have everything building including the full Python scripting. > > Unfortunately our current install paths when building with mingw > don't > > match up with the msys/mingw file structure. The msys/mingw file > > structure is the same as linux except for the library binaries which > get > > installed in the bin/ folder in order for the executable to be able > to > > find the libraries. I propose that we change our windows install > paths > > to be the same as linux except for the kiface libraries. Our path > > search code can be simplified since windows and linux have the same > > relative install paths. Our windows install would look like > > > > # Path for executable and shared objects. > > ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/bin > > > > # Path for documentation. > > ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/kicad/doc > > > > # Path for demo projects. > > ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/kicad/demos > > > > # Path for project templates. > > ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/kicad/templates > > > > # Path for component libraries. > > ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/kicad/library > > > > # Path for plugings. > > ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/kicad/plugins > > > > # Path for data files. > > ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/kicad > > > > # Path for footprint library files when no GitHub. > > ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/kicad/modules > > > > # Path for 3D model libraries. > > ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/kicad/share/modules/packages3D > > > > If no one objects to these changes, I will update our install paths > > accordingly and submit the kicad package build file to the msys2 > > project. Hopefully, soon you will be able to install msys2 and > install > > kicad by running the `pacman -S`. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Wayne > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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