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[Babar Malik <babarnamal@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks a lot. As far as my background knowledge is concerned, I am familiar
with C++ but I didn't executed any project which includes a complete
software development.

Babar

Best Regards,
Muhammad Babar Malik
Namal College Mianwali
An Associate College of University of Bradford

On 16 January 2018 at 13:38, Christian Gagneraud <chgans@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> CC Qucs's maintainer, please feel free to extend.
>
> On 16 January 2018 at 21:14, Babar Malik <babarnamal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I am much more interested to integrate Kicad and Qucs,  and the first
> step
> > towards this would be to study the source code of Kicad from scratch. Can
> > you please help me regarding to this ? Please guide me from where I
> should
> > take first step?
> > your help will be highly appreciated.
>
> Hi Babar, (Please keep mailing list(s) posted)
>
> Integrating KiCAD and Qucs can be done at several levels.
> Both projects are written in C++, but one uses WxWidgets, while the
> other is using Qt (3, 4, but not 5).
> So maybe a possible approach would be to try to integrate qucsator
> (the core simulation engine) with KiCAD's GUI.
> That is: do not try to merge/join them at C++ level, but at process level.
> Please also note that Qucs has some friendly forks that attempts to
> consolidate alternative simulation engines (ngspice, xyce, gnucap,
> spice opus, ...)
>
> See eg.: https://qucs-help.readthedocs.io/en/spice4qucs/BasSim.html
>
> I have no authority in any of the aforementioned projects, but may I
> suggest to contact the developer mailing of each project.
> Have a look at each project git repo, and don't hesitate to ask
> question on respective mailing lists.
>
> Some starting points:
> https://github.com/Qucs
> https://ra3xdh.github.io/
> https://github.com/KiCad
> https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=gnucap
> https://github.com/Qucs/gnucsator
>
> As I said, if you want to integrate qucs and KiCAD, you might want to
> focus on using qucsator/gnucsator as simulation backend(s) in KiCAD
>
> Don't feel overwhelmed, dive in and ask! ;)
>
> What's your background? What are your skills and experience? It might
> be useful to present yourself so that community members can understand
> where you're coming from and how to help you to achieve your goals.
>
> Chris
>