Building release version of Kicad fails

[kerr smith]

For the last couple of days I have not been able to build the latest version of Kicad from source using Windows 7 64 bit.

Since about revision 5397 I have had the following errors appear (this was from just now so the revision is the latest one):

-- Building Release version of KiCad revision: 5401

[ 0%] [ 0%] creating 'boost scratch repo' specifically for boost to track boos
t patches
Built target page_layout_lexer_source_files
[ 0%] Built target netlist_lexer_source_files
[ 0%] Built target fp_lib_table_lexer_source_files
CMakeFiles\boost.dir\build.make:157: recipe for target 'C:/kicad/src/kicad/.down
loads-by-cmake/boost_1_54_0/src/boost-stamp/boost-bzr_init_boost' failed
CMakeFiles\Makefile2:62: recipe for target 'CMakeFiles/boost.dir/all' failed
[ 0%] Built target pcb_lexer_source_files
[ 29%] Built target bitmaps
Makefile:115: recipe for target 'all' failed
-- Installing KiCad locally. Use RunKiCad.bat to run this version
CMake Error at KiCadWinbuilder.cmake:1040 (file):
  file COPY cannot find "C:/kicad/kicad/bin/pylib/_pcbnew.pyd".

Press any key to continue . . .

I just thought I would report this as lots of new changes have been made in the last few days but I could not find any mention of this issue when I searched the latest bug reports and using Google.

[Nick Østergaard (nickoe)]

Try to clean your build tree.

[Oivind Toien (otoien)]

I am seeing the same here, Win7 64bit/Winbuilder 3.4.2 .

Not sure what part should have been cleaned out; I tried to clean out any folder that did not come with winbuilder, however it would not even run make then. Instead I did a full clean re-install and update with winbuilder and the errors went away and version is now reading BZR5402.

[kerr smith (kerrsmithusa)]

I tried to do a make.bat clean and nothing changed (was not quite sure if this was a valid command but tried it just in case).

I then tried deleting the build directory and nothing changed except for a small additional download of some files, it still stopped at the same point.

I completely rebuilt from scratch as suggested by Oivind and it now works again.

[Nick Østergaard (nickoe)]

Seems more like an issue with the kicad-winbuilder rather than with kicad itself I think. Because on linux I just had to make clean IIRC.

[m (easyw)]

I don't remeber exactly, but I think I solved deleting the dir boost_1_54_0
in the c:\kicadwinbuilder\src\kicad\.downloads-by-cmake\boost_1_54_0
then I re-invoked 'make' for building...

hoping this could solve your issue...
Maurice

[Brian Sidebotham (brian-sidebotham)]

Hi Guys,

KiCad-Winbuilder is currently broken because of a change in the KiCad
source. I'll issue an updated version soon. However to quickly bodge
things to make it work, edit setenv.bat and change line 57 to read:

SET PYTHONPATH=%PYTHONHOME%;%CD%\build\wxPython-cmake-mswu-gcc_dll_cm-3.0.0-win32\wxpython

Best Regards,

Brian.

On 9 February 2015 at 19:36, m <email address hidden> wrote:
> I don't remeber exactly, but I think I solved deleting the dir boost_1_54_0
> in the c:\kicadwinbuilder\src\kicad\.downloads-by-cmake\boost_1_54_0
> then I re-invoked 'make' for building...
>
> hoping this could solve your issue...
> Maurice
>
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> Title:
> Building release version of Kicad fails
>
> Status in KiCad EDA Software Suite:
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> Status in KiCad Windows Builder:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> For the last couple of days I have not been able to build the latest
> version of Kicad from source using Windows 7 64 bit.
>
> Since about revision 5397 I have had the following errors appear (this
> was from just now so the revision is the latest one):
>
> -- Building Release version of KiCad revision: 5401
>
> [ 0%] [ 0%] creating 'boost scratch repo' specifically for boost to track boos
> t patches
> Built target page_layout_lexer_source_files
> [ 0%] Built target netlist_lexer_source_files
> [ 0%] Built target fp_lib_table_lexer_source_files
> CMakeFiles\boost.dir\build.make:157: recipe for target 'C:/kicad/src/kicad/.down
> loads-by-cmake/boost_1_54_0/src/boost-stamp/boost-bzr_init_boost' failed
> CMakeFiles\Makefile2:62: recipe for target 'CMakeFiles/boost.dir/all' failed
> [ 0%] Built target pcb_lexer_source_files
> [ 29%] Built target bitmaps
> Makefile:115: recipe for target 'all' failed
> -- Installing KiCad locally. Use RunKiCad.bat to run this version
> CMake Error at KiCadWinbuilder.cmake:1040 (file):
> file COPY cannot find "C:/kicad/kicad/bin/pylib/_pcbnew.pyd".
>
> Press any key to continue . . .
>
> I just thought I would report this as lots of new changes have been
> made in the last few days but I could not find any mention of this
> issue when I searched the latest bug reports and using Google.
>
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[kerr smith (kerrsmithusa)]

Hi Brian,

Thanks for the suggestion, it worked fine and the code built as usual.

I did a complete rebuild from scratch so I could keep my older currently working copy just in case something went wrong during the process but it compiled without any errors and works as expected.

Thanks again,

Kerr