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[Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>]

Have you tried redefining the environment variables to point to the correct
system libraries? Specifically I believe the 4 you need are:
KICAD_TEMPLATE_DIR (the templates)
KICAD_SYMBOL_DIR (the eeschema symbols)
KISYSMOD (the modules)
KISYS3DMOD (the 3d models)

-Ian



On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 8:50 PM Johannes Maibaum <jmaibaum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello KiCad developers,
>
> TL;DR:
> How can I redefine the default system
> footprint/symbols/packages3d/templates base search paths at build time
> using CMake options, so that KISYSMOD, KISYS3DMOD, KICAD_SYMBOL_DIR, and
> KICAD_TEMPLATE_DIR all point to the directories:
>
> $PREFIX/data/share/kicad/{modules,modules/packages3d,symbols,templates}
>
> instead of:
>
> $PREFIX/share/kicad/{modules,modules/packages3d,symbols,templates}?
>
>
> Longer version:
>
> First a quick update from flatpak land:
>
> This week I merged the update to KiCad 5.1.6, fixed the ngspice
> simulator in Eeschema, activated Python scripting, and added user
> documentation to the KiCad flatpak. This means that flatpak users by now
> get a KiCad experience that should support close to all features that
> the software package offers.
>
> But what I would like to do in order to make the installed size
> (currently 6.2GB, mostly due to the 3D packages) a little bit more
> controllable from the user perspective [1] is to move the footprint,
> symbols, 3D models, and templates into separate "flatpak app extensions"
> which can then be installed or removed independently of the main
> application.
>
> The way flatpak extensions work is that you basically define an
> "extension mount point" inside your main flatpak (I chose /app/data) for
> whatever files and directories an installed extension wants to add into
> the bundle.
>
> I have set up those library extensions already, and they are being
> mounted correctly inside the flatpak at runtime, but so far I wasn't
> able to configure KiCad correctly to use this mount point as base dir
> for the data files.
>
> So far, I have tried either -DDEFAULT_INSTALL_PATH=/app/data or
> -DCMAKE_INSTALL_DATADIR=/app/data during CMake configuration in two
> different test builds (as those two options were appearing in
> CMakeLists.txt and the surrounding lines seemed to indicate that they
> were doing what I was trying to achieve).
>
> Yet, none of the two did change anything (though I didn't try using both
> together yet) regarding to the KiCad system paths. This is what I see in
> "Preferences->Configure Paths" with or without redefining the CMake
> options:
>
> KICAD_SYMBOL_DIR=/app/share/kicad/library
> KICAD_TEMPLATE_DIR=/app/share/kicad/template
> KISY3DSMOD=/app/share/kicad/modules/packages3d
> KISYSMOD=/app/share/kicad/modules
>
> I saw further CMake options which are all marked as advanced, thus I did
> not try them yet.
>
> Is there a way to achieve what I want to do with the current set of
> CMake switches or would this need deeper plumbing?
>
>
> Here's my current CMake setup:
>
> "config-opts": [
>     "-DBOOST_ROOT=/app",
>     "-DDEFAULT_INSTALL_PATH=/app/data",
>     "-DGLEW_INCLUDE_DIR=/app/include/GL",
>     "-DOPENGL_glu_LIBRARY=/app/lib/libGLU.so",
>     "-DKICAD_BUILD_QA_TESTS=OFF",
>     "-DKICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON",
>     "-DKICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON"
> ]
>
> (--prefix=/app is the default in flatpak land).
>
>
> And version info:
>
> Application: KiCad
> Version: 5.1.6, release build
> Libraries:
>     wxWidgets 3.0.5
>     libcurl/7.65.3-DEV GnuTLS/3.6.13 (NSS/3.46.1) (OpenSSL/1.1.1d)
> zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.2.0
> Platform: Linux 5.6.14-arch1-1 x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
> Build Info:
>     wxWidgets: 3.0.5 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+
> 3.24
>     Boost: 1.66.0
>     OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
>     Curl: 7.65.3-DEV
>     Compiler: GCC 9.2.0 with C++ ABI 1013
>
> Build settings:
>     USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
>     USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
>     KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
>     BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
>     KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
>     KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
>     KICAD_SPICE=ON
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Johannes
>
>
> [1] To quote a user: "KiCad is AFAIK the biggest flatpak on Flathub" (
>
> https://github.com/flathub/org.kicad_pcb.KiCad/issues/19#issuecomment-632761066
> )
>
>
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