Latest kicad version/build win 32bit?

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Hi

I’m using kicad for many years and still stucked with the old stable release

I need to share some work with others who are using a later build and i can not open theire PCB files

Could someone point me to an updated build but for win32bit ?

any download links are welcome

thank you all in advance

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Have you considered using the KiCad Winbuilder and just constructing the latest from there? When you launch the make it’s quite a lengthy process, but completely automated.

Cheers ! Geoff

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thanks Geoff

I run the kicad winbuilder, it did

but dont find any executable’s

Runkicad say’s kicad.exe not found

any help welcome

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[quote=“moonbouncer, post:3, topic:775”]
I run the kicad winbuilder, it did
but dont find any executable’s
[/quote]After extracting the 7z file, run make.bat. That will download all the source then build the latest nightly build for you in a /kicad subdirectory. After that’s done, RunKiCad.bat will have an executable and the error will go away.

Cheers! Geoff

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A few newish builds for Windows are available here:
http://www2.futureware.at/~nickoe/

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HI geoff

I did a new install of the kicadwinbuilder from scratch

Run the make.be

this is the log in the cmd screen at the end, same error as yesterday:

If i try runkicad, it say that ./kicad is not found

Would it be possible to help me ?

[ 46%] Building CXX object cvpcb/CMakeFiles/cvpcb_kiface.dir/__/pcbnew/dialogs/d

ialog_fp_lib_table.cpp.obj

[ 46%] Building CXX object cvpcb/CMakeFiles/cvpcb_kiface.dir/__/pcbnew/dialogs/d

ialog_fp_lib_table_base.cpp.obj

[ 46%] Building CXX object cvpcb/CMakeFiles/cvpcb_kiface.dir/__/pcbnew/dialogs/d

ialog_fp_plugin_options.cpp.obj

[ 46%] Building CXX object cvpcb/CMakeFiles/cvpcb_kiface.dir/__/pcbnew/dialogs/d

ialog_fp_plugin_options_base.cpp.obj

[ 46%] Building CXX object cvpcb/CMakeFiles/cvpcb_kiface.dir/__/pcbnew/dialogs/w

izard_add_fplib_base.cpp.obj

[ 46%] Building CXX object cvpcb/CMakeFiles/cvpcb_kiface.dir/__/pcbnew/dialogs/w

izard_add_fplib.cpp.obj

Linking CXX shared module _cvpcb.kiface

cvpcb\CMakeFiles\cvpcb_kiface.dir\build.make:816: recipe for target 'cvpcb/_cvpc

b.kiface’ failed

CMakeFiles\Makefile2:780: recipe for target 'cvpcb/CMakeFiles/cvpcb_kiface.dir/a

ll’ failed

Makefile:115: recipe for target ‘all’ failed

– Installing KiCad locally. Use RunKiCad.bat to run this version

CMake Error at KiCadWinbuilder.cmake:1038 (file):

file COPY cannot find “C:/kicadbuild/kicad/bin/pylib/_pcbnew.pyd”.

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That seems very similar to this : Link to launchpad bug report

Cheers! Geoff

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thank you geoff

If i look into /kicad/bin there is no file called _pcbnew.pyd, so unable to copy to /kicad/bin/pylib

Remick, this happened to me also from BZR 5378.

I think it's because some of the KiCAD source files were moved. My solution for this problem seemed to be to copy the missing file "_pcbnew.pyd" from /kicad/bin to /kicad/bin/pylib. That eliminated that error. But now I get an obscure boost error, so I don't know if this will help you any.

Incidentally, a fresh install and build worked fine on another machine.

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A possible fix for this error is talked about in this thread.