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From Code::Blocks
How-to build KiCad with MSys2 Code::Blocks
by Tim Stahlhut (stahta01)
CB Forum Thread
Requirements
- KiCAD source
- KiCAD depends
- GCC Toolchain
- CMake
- Code::Blocks
- MSys2
MSys2 Mingw Environment package install commands
pacman -S --needed git ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-cmake ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-gcc \
${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-boost \
${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-pkgconf \
${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-codeblocks \
${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-make \
${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-swig
pacman -S --needed ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-opencascade \
${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-glm \
${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-libgit2 \
${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-ngspice \
${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-nng \
${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-protobuf \
${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-wxPython
Build KiCad using CMake and Code::Blocks Steps
- Clone git repo
mkdir -p ~/devel && cd ~/devel && \ git clone https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror.git kicad
- Create CB Project
mkdir -p ~/devel/kicad/cb_build && cd ~/devel/kicad/cb_build && \
cmake -Wno-dev \
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="${MINGW_PREFIX}"/local \
-DDEFAULT_INSTALL_PATH="${MINGW_PREFIX}"/local \
-DOCC_INCLUDE_DIR="${MINGW_PREFIX}"/include/opencascade \
-DKICAD_BUILD_QA_TESTS=OFF \
-DNANODBC_DISABLE_ASYNC=ON \
-DCMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM="${MINGW_PREFIX}"/bin/mingw32-make.exe \
-G"CodeBlocks - MinGW Makefiles" ..