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Electronics => PCB/EDA/CAD => KiCad => Topic started by: GiskardReventlov on March 10, 2014, 11:16:57 pm

Title: Building Kicad from source
Post by: GiskardReventlov on March 10, 2014, 11:16:57 pm

I tried to build kicad from source but ran into a problem. I built wxWidgets statically and kicad build failed when it couldn't find wxwidgets3/lib/libwx_gtk2u_aui-3.0.a  (maybe not exact but close enough) while trying to build cvpcb.
I'm thinking that wx3 is too new, I may retry with wx28.  I rebuilt wx3 many times trying to coerce it into making that missing library but had no success.  The other .a libs are there.

I'm not in a bind or anything, I just want to look at one of these pcb programs.

Title: Re: Building Kicad from source
Post by: apelly on March 10, 2014, 11:18:08 pm

Platform?

Title: Re: Building Kicad from source
Post by: GiskardReventlov on March 11, 2014, 01:08:25 am

Quote from: apelly on March 10, 2014, 11:18:08 pm

Platform?

Does it matter? If so, how so?

Title: Re: Building Kicad from source
Post by: HackedFridgeMagnet on March 11, 2014, 01:27:21 am

If you just want to try Kicad then you can download a binary.

Which are admittedly hard to find.

Hence the need to know what platform.

Title: Re: Building Kicad from source
Post by: GiskardReventlov on March 11, 2014, 02:13:53 am

Quote from: HackedFridgeMagnet on March 11, 2014, 01:27:21 am

If you just want to try Kicad then you can download a binary.

Yeah, I know there are binaries. My interest in looking at Kicad is mild and I'll revisit it again some other time.

Title: Re: Building Kicad from source
Post by: apelly on March 11, 2014, 03:14:07 am

Last try:

https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kicad-product-committers/kicad/product/view/head:/INSTALL.txt