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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 8:59 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 15 Aug 2016, at 05:45, Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>  Back in May I also received some tips on building the plugin for
> OSX: https://github.com/cbernardo/kicad_oce_3D/issues/1
>
>
> [...]
>
>  We still need a volunteer to do some work to get an OSX build
> of OCE and the 3D plugin, and from there I can put the 3D plugin
> *and* a kicad_pcb to STEP converter into KiCad. (Any
> volunteers?)
>
>
> What exactly do you expect?
>
> As far as I read the post above everything is fine on OS X.
> You have to install/compile OCE, compile the plugin, and copy it to KiCad
> bundle.
> That’s exactly what I would expect for an out-of-tree plugin.
>
> Do you think of a binary release of the plugin like KiCad itself?
> That’s maybe not so easy because of the OCE dependency which is not
> bundled for a simple .so plugin like the other decencies for KiCad.
> If just distributing some .so, the target system might not have OCE, the
> wrong version, or even some wrong KiCad version.
>
> For Linux this might be easy, because the “fits together” is done by the
> package manager.
> I could imagine that this is a similar problem on Windows, how do you
> think the plugin (including all dependencies) should be distributed there?
>
> Or of per default including it to KiCad packages?
>
>
 I would like the OCE plugin and other STEP tools to be part of the main
KiCad
branch. As part of this I think we need someone to ensure that we have an
OCE
build which can be distributed for installation on OSX along with the
plugin and
tools. For people who build their own and want the STEP tools, installing a
suitable
OCE is their problem. For most users I expect they would want to download an
installer which installs OCE and the 3D plugin (and any other tools).

- Cirilo


>
> Regards,
> Bernhard
>
>