Hi Cirilo,
- will it be possible to build the plugins without using kicad
source code? Maybe for some type of plugins it will be easy to have
an API, but for things related with kicad, it can be an huge library
or dependencies.
The plugins can be built without the kicad source; all you need are
the correct headers to implement the API.
"Plugins only need to include the appropriate API header files; they
will not need to link to KiCad or know the details of KiCad's internal
data."
The thing is, let say you want to make an export and you need the
BOARD structure, then you expect that it exists some header files that
define all items in the BOARD.
As far as I understand, at the moment, kicad have this structure
defined in the same place of the implementation and usage in kicad.
So, there is a no clean library that can be extracted from kicad (a
library with only its dependencies) and used both by kicad it self and
by external plugins.
As we have the things at the moment, you have to use the includes from
kicad.. and checkout the whole kicad project.
Ideally what I was thinking is that the headers that the plugins can
use, can be extracted from kicad and an API will be created and kicad
will use it as an API too.
So some one that can develop a plugin, only need to checkout the APIs
and not the full kicad project.
Mario
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