Have you read the 5 - Footprint Libraries Management chapter in http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kicad-developers/kicad/doc/view/head:/doc/help/en/cvpcb.pdf?
2014-02-19 1:45 GMT+01:00 Sean Silva <[email protected]>: > > > > 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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