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Re: Packaging note: new data file

 

The mingw nightly kicad-r21621.b71ab01de4 and MSVC testing build
kicad-msvc.r21621.b71ab01de4 both are working now.

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 10:07 AM Brian Piccioni <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> OK. I'll go back.
>
> It might be useful to send an "all clear" message when the issue is fixed,
> and perhaps not updating the nighties and deleting the broken ones until
> then.
>
> Otherwise you are going to get lots of people who download the Windows
> nightlies and end up with a broken installation.
>
> Not everybody is on the developers list.
>
>
> On 2021-03-12 10:02 a.m., Jon Evans wrote:
>
> Personally I'd recommend going back a day and waiting, but if you really
> want to install it manually, a version of the file is linked in the Ubuntu
> bug[1]
>
> [1]
> https://gitlab.com/kicad/packaging/kicad-ubuntu-builder/kicad-daily-package/-/issues/10#note_527479262
>
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 9:59 AM Brian Piccioni <
> brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Any suggestions how I can fix this. Should I just go back a few nightlies
>> or can I download and install the file manually?
>> On 2021-03-12 9:58 a.m., Jon Evans wrote:
>>
>> Mingw nightlies are currently broken:
>> https://gitlab.com/kicad/packaging/kicad-win-builder/-/issues/121
>>
>> @Dino and others:
>>
>> This resource file has no dependency at all on the configuration in
>> ~/.config - its location is set at compile time.
>>
>> This error: can't open file 'share/kicad/resources/images.tar.gz'
>> indicates something is wrong with the KICAD_DATA cmake variable.
>> I would check that in your CMakeCache.txt (and maybe clear the cache and
>> rerun cmake)
>>
>> > Deleting that makes kicad not to start with a segmentation fault (may
>> be this is a real bug).
>>
>> Please report a bug for this, it likely has nothing to do with the image
>> resource file problem
>>
>> -Jon
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 9:33 AM Brian Piccioni <
>> brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I should add this was the 64-lite installer. I unzipped that package and
>>> can't find an images.tar.gz file nor does it appear that any images.tar.*
>>> files are present on my system. There were some images.py files installed
>>> and some test_images.py files but no other files names images.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2021-03-12 9:19 a.m., Brian Piccioni wrote:
>>>
>>> I just downloaded the most recent nightly and got this. Install went
>>> without a hitch. How do I fix this?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Application: KiCad
>>>
>>> Version: (5.99.0-9739-g6a369b230f), release build
>>>
>>> Libraries:
>>>     wxWidgets 3.0.5
>>>     libcurl/7.71.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1g (Schannel) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7
>>> libidn2/2.3.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.3.0) libssh2/1.9.0 nghttp2/1.41.0
>>>
>>> Platform: Windows 10 (build 19042), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little
>>> endian, wxMSW
>>>
>>> Build Info:
>>>     Date: Mar 12 2021 10:00:37
>>>     wxWidgets: 3.0.5 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
>>>     Boost: 1.73.0
>>>     OCE: 6.9.1
>>>     Curl: 7.71.0
>>>     ngspice: 34
>>>     Compiler: GCC 10.2.0 with C++ ABI 1014
>>>
>>> Build settings:
>>>     KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
>>>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
>>>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
>>>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
>>>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
>>>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
>>>     KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
>>>     KICAD_SPICE=ON
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2021-03-11 9:14 a.m., Jon Evans wrote:
>>>
>>> You will get an error message on starting an application saying the file
>>> can't be opened (and showing the path it's searching for it)
>>>
>>> You can dismiss this error message but then you will see no images
>>> anywhere:
>>>
>>> [image: image.png]
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 9:06 AM Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is there a quick test to see if it's working end-to-end?  Something in
>>>> KiCad that'll work only if this is working and is found?
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 7:44 AM Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> As of 18037e2f, a new data file is generated during build that
>>>>> contains image resources for KiCad.
>>>>>
>>>>> This file should be installed to ${KICAD_DATA}/resources/images.tar.gz
>>>>> (So, something like /usr/share/kicad/resources/images.tar.gz on Linux).
>>>>>
>>>>> There is an install target for this in the cmake file now, so this
>>>>> *should* be done automatically, but I wanted to give a heads-up in case any
>>>>> of the nightly packages require manual modification when the build
>>>>> artifacts change.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Jon
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