Author Topic: Building KiCAD for Windows (Read 39792 times)

hairykiwi · « **Reply #25 on:** November 14, 2012, 07:08:17 pm »

Which tutorials did you try? The Teho labs one got me going well enough. The yahoo groupmail is also very active and full of helpful people - including the developers sometimes. I can't compare KiCad with much as I didn't want to get bogged down with proprietary formats - so I persevered with learning KiCad. It is quirky, but seems quite powerful. The FreeRouter it links with can autoroute - but also good for dragging components around while maintaining netclass rules.

ElektroQuark · « **Reply #26 on:** November 14, 2012, 08:20:30 pm »

Quote from: carloscuev on November 14, 2012, 05:32:00 pm

Is it just me or current rev 3800 doesn't compliles using kicadwinbuilder script?

I've attached error logs.

Solved on rev 3801

carloscuev · « **Reply #27 on:** March 11, 2013, 08:07:59 pm »

I've been posting daily builds here: http://escalalibre.com/edwt/ as well as Walter's libraries (http://smisioto.no-ip.org/elettronica/kicad/kicad-en.htm) in a single 7zip file and some random tools I've made for myself, but feel free to use them. Any comments please send me PM. Hope they're useful for you guys.

carloscuev · « **Reply #28 on:** June 05, 2013, 07:47:37 am »

The Kicad-WinBuilder script has been updated, since some months it comes in a handy zip file with a bat file, just double click and everything starts. I guess the only other thing needed is cmake, but I'm not sure. Now, building you own testing versions is easier than ever

https://launchpad.net/kicad-winbuilder

ElektroQuark · « **Reply #29 on:** June 05, 2013, 08:29:52 am »

Quote from: carloscuev on March 11, 2013, 08:07:59 pm

... as well as Walter's libraries (http://smisioto.no-ip.org/elettronica/kicad/kicad-en.htm) ...

Hi Carlos:

Do you update them regularly?
Thank you.

carloscuev · « **Reply #30 on:** June 05, 2013, 08:37:21 am »

Yes I do, In less than 2 days there's a new release, or Walter posts new libraries I upload a new package

carloscuev · « **Reply #31 on:** November 09, 2013, 08:32:04 am »

Latest testing build Rev.4448 with scripting, footprint library table and CERN's contributions is available at http://escalalibre.com/edwt/kicad_testingBinaries/ not sure if scripting works correctly as I don't know how to use it and/or test it.

carloscuev · « **Reply #32 on:** November 09, 2013, 11:50:37 am »

Quote from: Mechatrommer on November 09, 2013, 11:47:02 am

its a bad sign

Why you say so?

I must admit sometimes it takes me more days to update them

but as he made them available via github, my packages are nearly useless

Icchan · « **Reply #33 on:** February 21, 2014, 01:19:38 am »

I wonder why it's even a requirement to build it for windows yourself? One big wrinkle in otherwise ok package... hopefully it's not there because people are lazy to make it more accessible?

HackedFridgeMagnet · « **Reply #34 on:** April 01, 2014, 05:03:00 am »

Quote

I wonder why it's even a requirement to build it for windows yourself? One big wrinkle in otherwise ok package... hopefully it's not there because people are lazy to make it more accessible?

I dont think it's because they are lazy, it's probably the Linux/Geda origin of the project.

I must admit I can't get Bazaar to work properly with my Subversion so I don't build either.

But if you look up the thread a bit.

Quote from: carloscuev on November 09, 2013, 08:32:04 am

Latest testing build Rev.4448 with scripting, footprint library table and CERN's contributions is available at http://escalalibre.com/edwt/kicad_testingBinaries/ not sure if scripting works correctly as I don't know how to use it and/or test it.

~~That link has all the windows binaries and I think you can just drop them in and run them. Well it works for me anyway.~~

HackedFridgeMagnet · « **Reply #35 on:** April 02, 2014, 01:27:42 am »

^ I will take that back

PCBNew doesn't work with the library table. I can't figure out why.

From what I can gather the library table is held in the users home directory. Except I haven't got this file, if I create it, it isn't used anyway.

I will go back to the last stable build for while.

carloscuev · « **Reply #36 on:** April 02, 2014, 04:26:25 am »

Did you filled the lib table correctly? Here an example:

To be able to use those environment variables you may set them up on a bat file, which will be the new (temporary) way you run kicad:

HackedFridgeMagnet · « **Reply #37 on:** April 02, 2014, 05:44:44 am »

Thanks for the help.

I can get the PCB library Tables as demonstrated but I cannot find the file(s). I would like to directly edit them. They are supposed to be in my "home" directory which in windows should be under \Users\, but I cannot find them.

Anyway they must be somewhere as the information remains after restarting Kicad.

I am using Windows 8.1 but for some reason I have no %HOME% Environment Variable, maybe this is a problem.

Anyway I will try loading the new pretties from github and see what happens.

Anyway different versions of Kicad seem to be playing happily together.

carloscuev · « **Reply #38 on:** April 02, 2014, 06:04:31 am »

The file is here: C:\Users\<name>\AppData\Roaming\kicad\fp-lib-table and it's filled like this:

HackedFridgeMagnet · « **Reply #39 on:** April 02, 2014, 06:15:45 am »

Excellent, it is there. Roaming, why wouldn't put it there???. Surprised that the indexed search didn't find it.

So anyway I downloaded a .pretty file and placed it on a PCB all good.

I am not sure whether to work live with Libraries or to manually update local copies of them.
I saw some scripts written to do this, when I get the chance I will try it out.

Thanks for the input.

jancumps · « **Reply #40 on:** April 02, 2014, 07:09:57 am »

i'll check if the same steps will solve my broken KICad on Linux. As soon as I switched to source builds the library thingy stopped working

Rigby · « **Reply #41 on:** April 04, 2014, 02:28:25 pm »

I tried building with kicad-winbuilder last night and it failed.

I've attached the stderr.log; can anyone make heads or tails of this?

edit: nevermind. answered in this thread: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/open-source-kicad-geda/problem-building-kicad-for-windows/

firewalker · « **Reply #42 on:** April 10, 2014, 11:05:17 am »

Today (10-04-2014) I successfully built KiCad r4793 using Winbuilder on Windows 7.

Alexander.

carloscuev · « **Reply #43 on:** April 10, 2014, 03:42:40 pm »

To anyone building Kicad rev 4793 you will get this error when running cvpcb, eeschema, pcbnew, gerbview, pcbcalculator or pl_editor:

You need to manually copy:

"kicad-winbuilder-3.3\build\Release\cvpcb\_cvpcb.kiface"
"kicad-winbuilder-3.3\build\Release\eeschema\_eeschema.kiface"
"kicad-winbuilder-3.3\build\Release\gerbview\_gerbview.kiface"
"kicad-winbuilder-3.3\build\Release\pcb_calculator\_pcb_calculator.kiface"
"kicad-winbuilder-3.3\build\Release\pcbnew\_pcbnew.kiface"
"kicad-winbuilder-3.3\build\Release\pagelayout_editor\_pl_editor.kiface"

to your "kicad-winbuilder-3.3\kicad\bin\" folder

EDIT: cvpcb and pcbnew still fail to run

firewalker · « **Reply #44 on:** April 10, 2014, 05:13:44 pm »

Can you check if _pcbnew.pyd exists?

Alexander.

carloscuev · « **Reply #45 on:** April 10, 2014, 05:17:04 pm »

Yes, it's there.

firewalker · « **Reply #46 on:** April 10, 2014, 05:29:45 pm »

The process completed successfully? No errors at all?

Alexander.

carloscuev · « **Reply #47 on:** April 10, 2014, 05:46:39 pm »

No errors, I'll try to rebuild from scratch.

firewalker · « **Reply #48 on:** April 10, 2014, 06:53:55 pm »

After manually copying *.kiface files everything seems fine for me.

Alexander.

carloscuev · « **Reply #49 on:** April 10, 2014, 10:31:10 pm »

Nope, built from scratch and the problem persists


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