Windows
I wrote a script for building KiCad on Windows in a simple manor. This is perfect for building KiCad in order to check out the latest version to see if a bug has been quashed or to test a newly implemented feature.
You will need Bazaar and Cmake installed to use the script. Everything else is checked, and downloaded as necessary.
Once you have Bazaar installed (and it is available in the PATH environment variable) you can get the script with:
bzr branch lp:kicad-winbuilder
Once you have got the script, you can run it to build the latest development copy of KiCad with:
cd kicad-winbuilder cmake -P KiCadWinbuilder.cmake
This will take a good while to finish the first time around! So make sure you get a cup of tea ready. Subsequent runs of the script will update the KiCad source code and then build.
If you suffer any problems or want to improve the script please see the launchpad project page to participate. https://launchpad.net/kicad-winbuilder