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Re: Getting libraries when building from source.
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To:
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From:
Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date:
Wed, 19 Feb 2014 09:43:52 -0500
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On 2/19/2014 9:25 AM, Sean Silva wrote:
> 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
The footprint library table dialog which is documented in section 5.2 of
the CvPcb and section 2.4 of the Pcbnew User's Manuals is used to manage
your footprint libraries and the underlying ~/fp-lib-table. No text
editor is required if that is your preference. The default
~/fp-lib-table installed if you run the install script should give you
access to all of the GitHub libraries if your build has the GitHub
plugin enabled. The other option is download and install all of the
footprint libraries locally and configure your footprint library table
accordingly.
>
> On Feb 19, 2014 1:29 AM, "Nick Østergaard" <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>> 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 <chisophugis@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:chisophugis@xxxxxxxxx>>:
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Nick Østergaard
> <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx <mailto: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
> <mailto:chisophugis@xxxxxxxxx>>:
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Carl Poirier
> <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto: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
> <mailto:chisophugis@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Nick Østergaard
> <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx <mailto: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 <tel:2014-02-16> 1:54 GMT+01:00
> Sean Silva <chisophugis@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto: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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