Thanks, that was really helpful. Now I can refine my question a bit more. What is the recommended way to populate the footprint library table? I understand now how to manually add entries, but there are lots to add and I just want to "add all the official ones" out of the box.
-- Sean Silva On Feb 19, 2014 1:29 AM, "Nick Østergaard" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
_______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
