Hello Brian You would still need to obtain the dependencies in some way. vcpkg seems popular, but I still think there are issues with wxwidgets and vcpkg and some other dependencies kicad require to enable all features are not easily available.
On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 at 22:28, Brian Piccioni <br...@documenteddesigns.com> wrote: > > Tomasz > > > > Do you use Visual Studio to compile Kicad? If so, how? I’m not very good with > things like cmake and I’ve tried and tried to get KiCad (or even just PCBNew) > to compile with Visual Studio and end up with various problems I can’t solve > like missing packages, etc.. > > > > Besides the debugger, one thing with Visual Studio is that you only need > Visual Studio, not MSYS2, Mingw, etc., etc.. > > > > From: Tomasz Wlostowski > Sent: October 29, 2019 2:01 PM > To: Simon Richter; kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Benchmarking kicad compilation on > CPUsreleased 6 years apart > > > > On 29/10/2019 15:40, Simon Richter wrote: > > > We could probably shave off another two or three minutes of build time if > > > we could make sure that we always make progress on the critical path. The > > > dependency generation as a side effect pulls all the sources and headers > > > into cache, which reduces the effects of I/O latency a bit during > > > compilation, so parallelizing with more than the number of threads you > > > actually have is probably counterproductive. > > > > Hi, > > > > Another idea: use precompiled headers. I experimented some years ago > > with cotire for CMake on KiCad sources and it gave quite promising > > results. Since I didn't maintain this code it's probably useless by now > > given how new stuff has been added to KiCad tree but the savings in > > build time by header precompilation will be still IMHO quite significant. > > > > As for MSYS's GCC speed - personally I use Visual Studio under Windows, > > not only because of faster build time but also because of a debugger > > that actually works... > > > > As a side comment: > > > > $ make -j12 (latest KiCad master, i7-9750H, 32 GB DDR4 @ 2666 MHz, > > Ubuntu 19.04) > > > > real 7m59.758s > > user 86m44.231s > > sys 5m9.724s > > > > Citing the classic: "not great, not terrible" ;-) > > > > Cheers, > > Tom > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
