On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Nick Østergaard <[email protected]> wrote:
> I might have read your original mail a bit wrong, the dickelbeck lib is > the legacy one. > > But it should be enough with only the github plugin AFIK, you can verify > it by looking at the Help menu and then the version information. > What exactly should I be looking for? > If you want to use online pretty libs you also need to make sure that the > KIGITHUB env variable is set. > I didn't know about this environment variable, but it doesn't seem to change things. I just did a clean rebuild to be sure, with -DBUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON, and still, when I open cvpcb, I have no footprints. -- Sean Silva > > 2014-02-17 20:22 GMT+01:00 Sean Silva <[email protected]>: > > >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Carl Poirier >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Have you built KiCad with the GitHub plugin enabled? >>> >> >> My CMakeCache says: >> //Build the GITHUB_PLUGIN for pcbnew. >> BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN:BOOL=ON >> >> so I assume yes. Is there anything else I need to do to enable it? >> >> -- Sean Silva >> >> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Sean Silva <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Nick Østergaard <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> See https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-lib-committers/msg00034.html >>>>> >>>>> Which means that you should basically checkout >>>>> lp:~dickelbeck/kicad/library-read-only instead. I guess the information >>>>> should be updated on the website also, by those who have write access. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks for the information. I followed the same steps as on the wiki, >>>> except using lp:~dickelbeck/kicad/library-read-only instead, but I'm still >>>> running into the same issue. In particular, when I open up cvpcb, there are >>>> no footprints available. >>>> >>>> I'm getting errors like "Cannot find footprint library file >>>> 'sockets.mod' in any of the KiCad legacy library search paths.". There is >>>> no file sockets.mod, but there is a file Sockets.mod present in >>>> $INSTALL_ROOT/share/kicad/modules/. I tried renaming the file to >>>> sockets.mod but that doesn't seem to make any difference (no footprints >>>> appear either way). >>>> >>>> It seems like there is a lot of mention of "legacy" in the dialogs when >>>> using this approach. Is there a different approach that I should be using >>>> which is non-"legacy"? >>>> >>>> -- Sean Silva >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> 2014-02-16 1:54 GMT+01:00 Sean Silva <[email protected]>: >>>>> >>>>>> Is there a preferred way to do this? Just building lp:kicad there >>>>>> doesn't seem to be any library stuff included. What I was able to find >>>>>> was: >>>>>> >>>>>> There seems to be <https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library> and all >>>>>> the *.pretty repos on github, but I wasn't able to find an explanation of >>>>>> how to integrate that into the basic source build/install. >>>>>> >>>>>> Also, at the bottom of < >>>>>> http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/DEV/Building+KiCad+on+Linux>, it >>>>>> says "If you want to also install the KiCad components library, you can >>>>>> use >>>>>> these commands:", but those commands don't work for me, and seem to be >>>>>> unrelated to the github libraries. >>>>>> >>>>>> So what is the usual/preferred way to get the libraries? >>>>>> >>>>>> -- Sean Silva >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>>>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>>>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
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