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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

If you want the default install path to be something other than
${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}, set ${DEFAULT_INSTALL_PATH} during config to
the desired path.

On 5/24/20 4:59 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> Maybe some of thar stuff depends on CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX in some
> unexpected way?
> 
> lør. 23. maj 2020 22.38 skrev Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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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