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[Sean Silva <chisophugis@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> 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 <chisophugis@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>
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>>
>> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>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 <chisophugis@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>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 <chisophugis@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>>
>>>>>>  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
>>>>>>
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