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Add KLayout as an official MSYS2 (MINGW32/MINGW64) package #755

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umarcor opened this issue Mar 23, 2021 · 0 comments
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Add KLayout as an official MSYS2 (MINGW32/MINGW64) package #755

umarcor opened this issue Mar 23, 2021 · 0 comments

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umarcor commented Mar 23, 2021

The packaging strategy in MSYS2 is based on Arch Linux's pacman and PKGBUILD recipes. Since building KLayout on MSYS2 using a custom procedure is supported already, it would be handy to have it adapted to a PKGBUILD script. PKGBUILD scripts are rather simple bash scripts with a few (2-3) functions and some metadata.

  • The main benefits for windows users would be:
    • Installing KLayout through pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-klayout and having it updated automatically through pacman -Syu.
    • Better (but not seamless) integration with other Python/PIP tools.
  • For developers, building KLayout on MSYS2 would be simplified to executing makepkg-mingw.
  • There is a nice service that allows both users and developers to know when there is some issue with building/updating KLayout: https://packages.msys2.org/queue

hdl.github.io/MINGW-packages is a subproject of github.com/hdl, which aims at tracking support of EDA tooling. There are some interesting references there:

I helped either packaging or updating the packages for MSYS2 of several EDA tools by providing CI setups based on msys2/setup-msys2. Some projects decided to merge them, while others keep them as PRs, which I rebase every once in a while. See iverilog, verilator, gtkwave, GHDL, etc.

I'd like to help with KLayout too. Yet, I'm kind of afraid of the complexity (#494 (comment)). @klayoutmatthias, what do you think?

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