Comment 11 for bug 1752150

On 3/7/2018 9:27 AM, Brian Piccioni wrote:
> Wow! Thanks so much for your help/effort!
>
> I will try the new build instructions you have posted. I hope I can
> follow them.
>
> Yes, I figured nobody was checking the build instructions. Some of them
> are clearly out of date. Same goes for Kicad-winbuilder as well, which I
> find odd.
>
> Clearly KiCad is mostly a Linux club but that is impractical for me as I
> work at home and tend to do my hobbies in between moments of
> inspiration. All my work work is Windows based.
>

I use windows for at least half of my development. Issues occasionally
pop up but they are fairly uncommon. The problem is that windows is a
terrible development platform made tolerable by projects like msys2.
The kicad and msys2 projects change very quickly so keeping the windows
build instructions up to date is not easy so you will have to do some
leg work on your own to build kicad on windows. The other option is to
turn off the oce plugin and spice simulation so you don't have to build
the oce and ngspice packages from source. I guess the msys2 folks never
got around to providing packages for oce and ngspice or they removed
them from the archive. It's been a while so I don't remember how I
ended up with these packages on my systems. Most likely I built them
from source assuming that the msys2 project would provide binary
packages for them.

Are your planning on hacking on kicad? If not, please consider using a
nightly build rather than building from source.