So, has anyone got a windows build to offer?
The kwinbuild is atrociously slow and does not give a working result, as shown:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad-winbuilder/+bug/1315945/comments/4Cross compiling it as per CERN's instructions(
http://www.ohwr.org/documents/251) does not seem to work, specifically due to:
- The patch file for wxwidgets is no longer current
- apt-get should also have these packages included: autopoint gperf
- step 6 should have .static added to the i686-pc-mingw32 directory, turning it into i686-pc-mingw32.static
And it being very slow, with copying of the bzr branch taking a very, very, very long time (I am taking a few hours here!). Downloading the source tarball seems to be a possible replacement. There is also a git mirror on github that is infinitely faster but I am not familiar enough with bzr to see if there are any gotcha's with using the git mirror instead.
Compiling wxwidgets is also a horrifically slow process.
And boost for kicad does not seem to want to compile due to "error: Invalid property '<cflags>': No value specified for feature 'cflags'." which seems to an OSX issue based on a github issue opened for this, but there does not appear to be a relevant solution to windows cross compiling.
I emailed the CERN guy about the issues with the cross compilation instructions and how to fix them, with him replying he is informing others of the possibly necessary changes, so that's good. Hopefully once I am able to get cross compiling working for Kicad I will throw up an automated build bot so others can just download the executables and whatnot without having to build it themselves and go through this rubbish.