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[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Do we still need spice as a build option?  It would be nice to bring down
the number of permutations out there and the SPICE simulator is really a
first-class KiCad citizen nowadays.

-S

On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 4:04 PM Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Saving in the project file is fine, I just mean if you split out
> NGSPICE_SIMULATOR_SETTINGS to a different file (not sim/ngspice.h) with no
> dependencies on ngspice itself, the settings class can be built without
> ngspice.
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 6:57 PM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> I thought about that but in what context does a simulation make sense
>> out side of a schematic or a netlist generated from a schematic?  I
>> saved the ngspice simulator settings in the project file because that is
>> the proper scope of the setting.  I really don't see a more logical
>> place to save the setting.   I suppose I could split out the simulator
>> settings code but it would be awkward at best.
>>
>> On 3/18/21 6:42 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
>> > Wayne, I haven't checked this code carefully but I'd recommend building
>> > the settings always, and moving the #ifdef to a different level (i.e.
>> > make the settings not depend on ngspice)
>> >
>> > That way if the same settings files are shared between a build with
>> > ngspice and a build without, they won't get thrown away.
>> >
>> > On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 6:37 PM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
>> > <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     My bad.  I forgot the simulator was a build option so I will have to
>> >     #ifdef the offending settings code.
>> >
>> >     - Wayne
>> >
>> >     On 3/18/21 6:02 PM, Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
>> >     > I have disabled ngspice in cmake settings but in a recent commit
>> by
>> >     > Wayne #include <sim/ngspice.h>, which in turn includes
>> >     > ngspice/sharedspice.h, was added to schematic.cpp which makes
>> >     > compilation fail apparently because I don't have ngspice at all.
>> >     >
>> >     > Eeli Kaikkonen
>> >     >
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