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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom,

I am completely fine with that answer.

This was also a question from a user who has been struggling with a Mac
build--I asked them what their system is because as far as I know all Macs
that can run an OS that can run KiCad have plenty of GPU cycles left over...

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
W&L

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Tomasz Wlostowski <tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx
> wrote:

> On 08.10.2014 15:36, Adam Wolf wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,'
>>
>> This is something I was asked yesterday and I don't know the answer.  Is
>> there a way to tell KiCad to compile for software rendering only, or do
>> we have a hard dependency on GPUs now?
>>
>> I checked
>> https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kicad-product-committers/
>> kicad/product/view/head:/Documentation/compiling/build-config.txt
>> but didn't see anything about GPU/software rendering.
>>
>> Please note this is not a feature request--just wondering if we can do
>> it with what we have today.
>>
>>  Hi Adam,
>
> What would be the point? Any computer less than 9 years old has a GPU
> capable of running Kicad...
>
> Best Regards,
> Tom
>