Comment 26 for bug 1752150

Nick

Thanks for the link. I had searched the web numerous times and only found user documentation. I'll see what I can make of this. I did manage to compile/run PCBNew and move it into my development platform, which was my objective.

I have very little knowledge of c++ (I am an old guy and a hardware guy and most of my development has been low level).

Nonetheless I would like to volunteer to port my PCB renumbering code into KiCad. I had a look at PCBNew and I am pretty sure it would be something I can do in collaboration with the development team as it is a feature which is missing from Kicad and I've written the most challenging aspect of the code. The major work that is left would be to provide a UI (which I believe I can derive from the existing code) and replace code I wrote from scratch for thing like creating the schematic hierarchy with existing Kicad code.

I have never used IRC so I don't know how to proceed (when I said old, I meant old - plus there was a 30 year gap in my tech career).

Thanks

Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> <email address hidden> On Behalf Of Nick Østergaard
Sent: March 15, 2018 3:36 PM
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 1752150] Re: Build from source MSYS2 the Easy Way Fails

Hi Brian,

If you have trouble with the local devdocs, you may just use the ones online at http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/doxygen/annotated.html They should be up to date with the master branch.

If you are the kind of guy for IRC, that is also an option if you want some more interactive help :)

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Title:
  Build from source MSYS2 the Easy Way Fails

Status in KiCad:
  New

Bug description:
  As per the title, after numerous attempts, this fails on Windows 10.

  I completely installed Msys2 and made sure there were no other
  instances.

  $ makepkg-mingw -is

  runs for several minutes and fails with

  "CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:577 (find_package):
    By not providing "FindOCE.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has
    asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "OCE", but
    CMake did not find one.

    Could not find a package configuration file provided by "OCE" (requested
    version 0.16) with any of the following names:

      OCEConfig.cmake
      oce-config.cmake

    Add the installation prefix of "OCE" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set "OCE_DIR"
    to a directory containing one of the above files. If "OCE" provides a
    separate development package or SDK, be sure it has been installed."

  Initially these files were not in my computer. I went to the directory
  mingw-w64-oce
  and there were only 3 files: oce-i686.install, oce-x86_64.install, and PKGBUILD. The only one I could figure out what to do with was PKGBUILD, so I ran

  $ makepkg-mingw -is

  within mingw-w64.

  This ran for several hours. It gave me errors

  "-- Configuring done
  CMake Warning in adm/cmake/TKGeomAlgo/CMakeLists.txt:
    The object file directory

      C:/MinGW/home/BrianP/src/MINGW-packages/mingw-w64-oce/src/oce-
  OCE-0.17.2/build-
  x86_64-w64-mingw32/adm/cmake/TKGeomAlgo/CMakeFiles/TKGeomAlgo.dir/

    has 145 characters. The maximum full path to an object file is 250
    characters (see CMAKE_OBJECT_PATH_MAX). Object file

  __/__/__/drv/Geom2dInt/Geom2dInt_SequenceNodeOfSeqPCOfPCLocFOfTheLocateExtPCOfTheProjPCurOfGInter_0.cxx.obj

    cannot be safely placed under this directory. The build may not work
    correctly.

  CMake Warning in adm/cmake/TKSTEPBase/CMakeLists.txt:
    The object file directory

      C:/MinGW/home/BrianP/src/MINGW-packages/mingw-w64-oce/src/oce-
  OCE-0.17.2/build-
  x86_64-w64-mingw32/adm/cmake/TKSTEPBase/CMakeFiles/TKSTEPBase.dir/

    has 145 characters. The maximum full path to an object file is 250
    characters (see CMAKE_OBJECT_PATH_MAX). Object file

  __/__/__/src/RWStepGeom/RWStepGeom_RWGeometricRepresentationContextAndParametricRepresentationContext.cxx.obj

    cannot be safely placed under this directory. The build may not work
    correctly.

  -- Generating done
  CMake Warning:
    Manually-specified variables were not used by the project:

      CMAKE_C_USE_RESPONSE_FILE_FOR_OBJECTS"

  Sure enough the build of OCE failed at 78%
  "[ 78%] Built target TKSTEPBase
  make: *** [Makefile:163: all] Error 2
  ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
      Aborting..."

  However, I found OCE-Config.cmake so set

  $ set OCE_DIR=./BrianP/src/MINGW-packages/mingw-w64-oce/src/oce-
  OCE-0.17.2/build-x86_64-w64-mingw32/OCEConfig.cmake

  I tried to make Kicad again as per the instructions and got the same
  error.

  I am pretty much stuck here: I followed the instructions at
  http://docs.kicad-
  pcb.org/doxygen/md_Documentation_development_compiling.html#msys2_easy
  exactly and the make fails.

  Any advice/suggestions would be appreciated.

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