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[Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there,

for testing the ML I will use this (a little bit offtopic) email to
hopefully clarify some things for me and others.

O.k., now that 4.0.3 is out of the door I was trying to do some l10n
work on the current development branch of KiCad again after the spice
simulation has arrived.

But currently I'm struggling with a local build of a recent development
KiCad version due the ngspice library dependency to enable the Spice
feature.

I'm running Debian testing (aka stretch) with some picks from unstable
and experimental.
Debian got the ngspice package in non-free [1] because of some license
issues that makes it impossible to place the package in main. But that
doesn't matter currently ...

The ngspice nor the tclspice package is lacking a *ngspice*.so.* [2] so
cmake of course can't find anything. So obviously the library isn't
build or packaged by the maintainer.

So I checked this locally and yes, there isn't a libngspice.so built.
I changed the build to enable the build of the shared library
(--enable-ngshared) and got a file libngspice.so.0.0.0 that I copied q&d
into /usr/lib

But cmake isn't find the library.

> --   date_time
> --   atomic
> CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-3.5/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:148 (message):
>   Could NOT find ngspice (missing: NGSPICE_LIBRARY)
> Call Stack (most recent call first):
>   /usr/share/cmake-3.5/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:388 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
>   CMakeModules/Findngspice.cmake:16 (find_package_handle_standard_args)
>   CMakeLists.txt:507 (find_package)
> 
> 
> -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
> See also "/home/carsten/gitprojects/kicad-source-mirror/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".

So I'm wondering where and for what is cmake looking? Is the library I
was putting into /usr/lib the correct library? How can I solve this issue?

If I know what to happen I can contact the package maintainer who is
hopefully accepting fixes.
Anyone with a similar environment? And maybe the documentation for the
KiCad build can be expanded with a little bit more information about this.

[1] https://packages.qa.debian.org/n/ngspice.html
[2] https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/ngspice/filelist
    https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/tclspice/filelist

-- 
Regards
Carsten Schoenert