Okay, so Wayne just updated the manual build instructions but I noticed one issue, there appears to not be a package called mingw-w64-x86_64-ngspice in the registry. To get around this, I just built it from source using Alexpux's recipe. I then discovered that the current OCE package contains a hard-coded path that causes the kicad build to fail (see: https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/issues/1870 where the issue is fixed, but a fixed package doesn't seem to be available in the repo yet), so I also manually built that from source to work around the issue. In order to avoid the long path issue that Brian ran in to, I made my path as short as possible to the mingw packages repository ("/c/code/mwp") Then I ran into this error while trying to build OCE: g++.exe: error: CreateProcess: No such file or directory g++.exe: error: CreateProcess: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [adm/cmake/TKPCAF/CMakeFiles/TKPCAF.dir/build.make:64: adm/cmake/TKPCAF/CMakeFiles/TKPCAF.dir/__/__/__/src/PDataXtd/PDataXtd_Axis.cxx.obj] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[2]: *** [adm/cmake/TKPCAF/CMakeFiles/TKPCAF.dir/build.make:89: adm/cmake/TKPCAF/CMakeFiles/TKPCAF.dir/__/__/__/src/PDataXtd/PDataXtd_Constraint.cxx.obj] Error 1 g++.exe: error: CreateProcess: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [adm/cmake/TKPCAF/CMakeFiles/TKPCAF.dir/build.make:114: adm/cmake/TKPCAF/CMakeFiles/TKPCAF.dir/__/__/__/src/PDataXtd/PDataXtd_Geometry.cxx.obj] Error 1 make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:3391: adm/cmake/TKPCAF/CMakeFiles/TKPCAF.dir/all] Error 2 So, here's the steps I followed, after installing a fresh msys2 64-bit. (assuming I have kicad already cloned into /c/code/kicad) cd /c/code pacman -S base-devel \ git \ mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake \ mingw-w64-x86_64-doxygen \ mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc \ mingw-w64-x86_64-python2 \ mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config \ mingw-w64-x86_64-swig \ mingw-w64-x86_64-boost \ mingw-w64-x86_64-cairo \ mingw-w64-x86_64-glew \ mingw-w64-x86_64-curl \ mingw-w64-x86_64-wxPython \ mingw-w64-x86_64-wxWidgets \ mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain \ mingw-w64-x86_64-glm git clone https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages mwp cd mwp/mingw-w64-ngspice makepkg-mingw -is cd ../mingw-w64-oce makepkg-mingw -is cd ../../kicad mkdir -p build/debug cd build/debug cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug \ -G "MSYS Makefiles" \ -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/mingw64 \ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/mingw64 \ -DDEFAULT_INSTALL_PATH=/mingw64 \ ../../ make -j4 install Now with oce and ngspice library issues fixed, KiCad successfully builds and installs to /mingw64/bin/ Morals of the story: 1) your disk path to sources for the mingw oce/ngspice libraries should be as short as possible 2) no one is regularly testing the KiCad documented instructions to make sure they still work :-/ 3) KiCad depends on several libraries that don't have a working binary distribution at the moment (or at least one that I can find), so they'll have to be built from source. If you are able to replicate my success using these hints, I will update the KiCad docs with some notes about these problems and how to work around them.