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[Brian Piccioni <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello

As I say, not a priority but I thought something I'd try. It might be 
useful to be able to build/run Kicad in WSL for testing. If it works it 
will mean people don't have to dual boot in order to test.

I have two issues:

1) NGSPICE not found. Unfortunately I cannot get the NGSPICE build 
script referenced to work. First it complained about not having yacc and 
after installing byacc I get the error

make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/libngspice_so/ngspice/src/maths'
Making all in frontend
make[2]: Entering directory '/tmp/libngspice_so/ngspice/src/frontend'
  YACC     parse-bison.c
byacc: e - line 32 of 
"/tmp/libngspice_so/ngspice/src/frontend/parse-bison.y", syntax error
%name-prefix "PP"
^
Makefile:761: recipe for target 'parse-bison.c' failed
make[2]: *** [parse-bison.c] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/libngspice_so/ngspice/src/frontend'
Makefile:1414: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/libngspice_so/ngspice/src'
Makefile:494: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
*** Build failed ***

so I just set -DKICAD_SPICE=OFF.


2) The make file seems to think the environment is MSYS2. I get this

-- Check for installed GLEW -- found
-- Boost version: 1.65.1
    CMake Error at 
/mnt/c/msys64/mingw64/lib/oce/OCE-libraries.cmake:229 (message):
      The imported target "TKernel" references the file

     "C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/libTKernel.dll.a"

    but this file does not exist.


I assume this is due to the way the make script determines if it is 
Linux or Windows.


If I can get this working I'll document the needed commands.

Thanks