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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

There is no $KICAD_PATH in the cmake configuration files.  There is
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX that defaults to the appropriate platform path for
using `make install`.  This can be changed when configuring cmake if
your not happy with the default.  Relative to CMAKE_INSTALL_PATH, what
is the sub-directory that the python scripts need to be install in to
ensure the they can be used without any additional user configuration?

On 9/28/2015 6:36 AM, Miguel Angel Ajo wrote:
> Hmm, that's a good point, I guess we should install them to
> 
> $KICAD_PATH/scripting/plugins
> 
> as it's the standard place where kicad will try to load them from [1]
> 
> [1]
> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror/blob/master/scripting/kicadplugins.i#L85
> 
> 
> Nick Østergaard wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> What is the plan for the python footprint wizrards [1]?
>>
>> I was trying to figure out how they were supposed to be installed, as
>> it looks now, it seems that they are not installed by cmake [3]. I see
>> that the eeschema bom pluings (the xsl files [2]) are intalled with
>> cmake, but that [1] is not, although it seems like they sould be
>> installed if we look at [3], but only if APPLE. And it seemt hat if
>> not __MINGW32__ or __WXMAC__ then we use the completely hardcoded path
>> on linux to /usr/local/kicad/bin/scripting/plugins ! [4].
>>
>> Although I can put them in ~/.kicad_plugins and they will work too.
>> But I am not exactly sure where this is defined.
>>
>> So what is the desired way to fix this issue? As is now it makes it
>> difficult to package the footprint wizards, because it is not
>> instlaled with cmake nor is there a dynamic path defined on linux.
>>
>> Regards
>> Nick Østergaard
>>
>> [1]
>> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror/tree/master/pcbnew/scripting/plugins
>>
>> [2]
>> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror/tree/master/eeschema/plugins
>> [3]
>> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror/blob/edbcf2d0cb5b6cd41f2c8f5da02eea83a87e23f5/pcbnew/CMakeLists.txt#L662
>>
>> [4]
>> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror/blob/edbcf2d0cb5b6cd41f2c8f5da02eea83a87e23f5/pcbnew/pcbnew.cpp#L244
>>
>>
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