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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

That's an equally valid solution.  Any of our package devs object to
this on the grounds that some platform doesn't support ngspice?

On 3/18/21 7:13 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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>
>         > <mailto: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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