You say it's first class but the spice gui needs alot of loving. The tool
framework is also ducktaped poorly into it.

On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 7:14 PM Seth Hillbrand <[email protected]> wrote:

> Do we still need spice as a build option?  It would be nice to bring down
> the number of permutations out there and the SPICE simulator is really a
> first-class KiCad citizen nowadays.
>
> -S
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 4:04 PM Jon Evans <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Saving in the project file is fine, I just mean if you split out
>> NGSPICE_SIMULATOR_SETTINGS to a different file (not sim/ngspice.h) with no
>> dependencies on ngspice itself, the settings class can be built without
>> ngspice.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 6:57 PM Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I thought about that but in what context does a simulation make sense
>>> out side of a schematic or a netlist generated from a schematic?  I
>>> saved the ngspice simulator settings in the project file because that is
>>> the proper scope of the setting.  I really don't see a more logical
>>> place to save the setting.   I suppose I could split out the simulator
>>> settings code but it would be awkward at best.
>>>
>>> On 3/18/21 6:42 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
>>> > Wayne, I haven't checked this code carefully but I'd recommend building
>>> > the settings always, and moving the #ifdef to a different level (i.e.
>>> > make the settings not depend on ngspice)
>>> >
>>> > That way if the same settings files are shared between a build with
>>> > ngspice and a build without, they won't get thrown away.
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 6:37 PM Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]
>>> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >     My bad.  I forgot the simulator was a build option so I will have
>>> to
>>> >     #ifdef the offending settings code.
>>> >
>>> >     - Wayne
>>> >
>>> >     On 3/18/21 6:02 PM, Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
>>> >     > I have disabled ngspice in cmake settings but in a recent commit
>>> by
>>> >     > Wayne #include <sim/ngspice.h>, which in turn includes
>>> >     > ngspice/sharedspice.h, was added to schematic.cpp which makes
>>> >     > compilation fail apparently because I don't have ngspice at all.
>>> >     >
>>> >     > Eeli Kaikkonen
>>> >     >
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