Just a thought.

[Glod76]

Just a thought.
It would be nice if there was a CuraDevelopmentKit (CDK) that installs everything needed to compile Cura. Links and after links after links, to try and find what's needed is a huge hassle. also needing to compile the things needed to compile cura? I'm positive, that if there was a CuraDevelopmentKit (CDK) 1 click install there would be many more people compiling and testing and faster debugging. Cura is my goto for my main slicer, and I really enjoy the new builds and fast bugfixes. The Beta builds are great to see the new stuff but 1 beta build? Id like to try the fixes, as there fixed. And I'm sure there are many people out there that would agree. Keep up the amazing work on this free open slicer. Sincerely Donnie Roszel, aka Glod

[thopiekar]

Hello @Glod76,

working on this (private time) for more than a year already.
It is really no easy to manage all the dependencies.

But however, made many improvements during the time, like adding speedups to the build process, commonizing many recipes and so on.
However, my final goal is to be able to get out of it installers, which I haven't finished up. I barely finished to build everything needed on Linux, began with Windows and prepared a macOS VM now.
But yeah, it takes a lot of time and I'm limited since I also need to maintain the CAD plugins.

But thank you for the comment here, because it feels like a thumb up for my work here 😉

[filipgoc]

@thopiekar pre-configured VMs (or anything simpler than the current setup) have been a dream for many of us! I hope you know that. I tend not to post about it repeatedly as this desire has been well documented on GitHub and I don't want to pressure anyone, but a desire it is.

[filipgoc]

I, for one, have tried to make the running from source/ compilation work on my mac two times so far (about a year apart) and both times I had to abandon the project before I made it work. Too many moving pieces, too many arcane errors... life's too short 🤷‍♂

[nallath]

We are working on getting it up & running. Mostly because we're switching build systems (so we kinda have to switch over to containerised build systems)

[Ghostkeeper]

Please try the Dockerfile in cura-build-environment. We're working on getting this to run in Windows properly (there is a WIP_windows_docker branch for that) but for Linux it should work already.