I published screnshoots of my terminal.
The file with my source code, which I named kicad.It is in the kicad_build folder.
I created build folder after that I created release folder in that build folder.Then I choosed release directory.When i want to cmake the files some errors are detected.I shared all steps that I did.I also shared CMakeErrorLog file.Does anyone know what the problem is and how i can fix it?
I’ll share the steps how I fixed errors :
I changed build options.
First of all.I cloned KiCad source code to a file.(I named that file target.)
The source code link that I used.: KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab (Thank you @imcinerney )
-I choosed the directory.(cd target/kicad)
-I created a build folder into kicad(mkdir build)(thank you @jos for the steps )
-I choosed the build directory(cd build).
And after these steps I changed build options of cmake.
-I wrote( cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DwxWidgets_USE_DEBUG=OFF -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=OFF -DKICAD_USE_OCC=OFF -DKICAD_USE_OCE=OFF
-DKICAD_SCRIPTING=OFF -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=OFF …)
-I did not get error here.And I wrote: make
-I wrote sudo make install.
And… Done…
I have new questions…
When I click add a symbol button , I get an error message.What is it mean? How can I fix it? I uploaded a screen shot.
You should not be using the launchpad link to get any sources for KiCad anymore, it was moved to GitLab in early 2020 and Launchpad is not guaranteed to contain up-to-date sources. The proper place to clone the KiCad git repo from is: KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab
Thanks for the reply,I did what you said but now I got new error.
*** OpenCascade header files missing ***
Verify your OpenCascade installation or pass CMake
the header directory as ‘-DOCC_INCLUDE_DIR=’
– Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also “/home/bernard/target/kicad/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log”.
See also “/home/bernard/target/kicad/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log”.
I shared CMakeErrorLog file:
Performing C++ SOURCE FILE Test COMPILER_SUPPORTS_WINCONSISTENT_MISSING_OVERRIDE failed with the following output:
Change Dir: /home/bernard/target/kicad/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp
Source file was:
int main() { return 0; }
Performing C++ SOURCE FILE Test COMPILER_SUPPORTS_WMISMATCHED_TAGS failed with the following output:
Change Dir: /home/bernard/target/kicad/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp
Source file was:
int main() { return 0; }
Performing C++ SOURCE FILE Test COMPILER_SUPPORTS_WIMPLICIT_FLOAT_CONVERSION failed with the following output:
Change Dir: /home/bernard/target/kicad/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp
These suggest that your C++ compiler isn’t recent enough, or the tests for the compiler version got it wrong. Try cleaning the source tree (not sure what the cmake command for that is) before building as there may be artefacts for a more recent compiler version checked in from another build.
– KiCad install dir: </usr/local>
– Enabling warning -Wsuggest-override
– Enabling warning -Wduplicated-branches
– Enabling warning -Wduplicated-cond
– Enabling error for -Wvla
– Enabling warning -Wimplicit-fallthrough
– Enabling error for -Wreturn-type
– Enabling warning -Wshadow
– Enabling warning -Wsign-compare
– Enabling warning -Wmissing-field-initializers
– Enabling warning -Wempty-body
– Enabling warning -Wreorder
– Disabling warning -Wpsabi
– Check for installed GLEW – found
– Check for installed ZLIB – found
– Found the following HarfBuzz libraries:
– HarfBuzz (required): /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libharfbuzz.so
– Found SWIG: /usr/bin/swig4.0 (found suitable version “4.0.1”, minimum required is “3.0”)
– pybind11 v2.7.1
– Found PythonInterp: /usr/bin/python3 (found version “3.8.10”)
– Found PythonLibs: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.8.so
– Performing Test HAS_FLTO
– Performing Test HAS_FLTO - Success
– Found PythonInterp: /usr/bin/python3 (found suitable version “3.8.10”, minimum required is “3.6”)
– Check for installed Python Interpreter – found
– Python module install path: lib/python3/dist-packages
– Found PythonLibs: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.8.so (found suitable version “3.8.10”, minimum required is “3.6”)
– Found / (wxWidgets )
– Found wxWidgets: -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu;-pthread;;;-lwx_gtk3u_gl-3.0;-lwx_gtk3u_aui-3.0;-lwx_gtk3u_adv-3.0;-lwx_gtk3u_html-3.0;-lwx_gtk3u_core-3.0;-lwx_baseu_net-3.0;-lwx_baseu-3.0;-lwx_gtk3u_propgrid-3.0;-lwx_baseu_xml-3.0;-lwx_gtk3u_stc-3.0;-lwx_gtk3u_richtext-3.0 (found version “3.0.4”)
– Found Doxygen: /usr/bin/doxygen (found version “1.8.17”) found components: doxygen missing components: dot
– Found UnixCommands: /usr/bin/bash
– Checking for module ‘gtk±3.0’
– Found gtk±3.0, version 3.24.20
– S3DSG version: 2.0.0
– Found Boost: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/Boost-1.71.0/BoostConfig.cmake (found version “1.71.0”) found components: unit_test_framework filesystem system
– Found wxWidgets: -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu;-pthread;;;-lwx_gtk3u_gl-3.0;-lwx_gtk3u_aui-3.0;-lwx_gtk3u_adv-3.0;-lwx_gtk3u_html-3.0;-lwx_gtk3u_core-3.0;-lwx_baseu_net-3.0;-lwx_baseu-3.0;-lwx_baseu_xml-3.0;-lwx_gtk3u_stc-3.0 (found suitable version “3.0.4”, minimum required is “3.0.0”)
– Configuring done
CMake Warning (dev) at thirdparty/3dxware_sdk/CMakeLists.txt:33 (add_library):
Policy CMP0063 is not set: Honor visibility properties for all target
types. Run “cmake --help-policy CMP0063” for policy details. Use the
cmake_policy command to set the policy and suppress this warning.
Target “TDxNavlib” of type “STATIC_LIBRARY” has the following visibility
properties set for CXX:
CXX_VISIBILITY_PRESET
VISIBILITY_INLINES_HIDDEN
For compatibility CMake is not honoring them for this target.
This warning is for project developers. Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.
– Generating done
CMake Warning:
Manually-specified variables were not used by the project:
KICAD_SCRIPTING
– Build files have been written to: /home/bernard/target/kicad/build
c++ --version
c++ (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 9.4.0
Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
bernard@bernard-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -l gcc g++
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
++±==============-================-============-=================================
ii g++ 4:9.3.0-1ubuntu2 amd64 GNU C++ compiler
ii gcc 4:9.3.0-1ubuntu2 amd64 GNU C compiler
You have gcc 9.4 from 2019 which is probably ok. Mine (not Ubuntu) is 7.5 and I have not heard of problems compiling with on this distro as KiCad packages are available. Most likely it’s to do with the options you are building with. Sorry, I’m not a developer so this is as much as I know.
BTW is there a reason you want to build your own instead of using the prebuilt packages?
Yes I will use kicad source code to write a similar software to do something like EEschema.So I want to build the cpp files of kicad on ubuntu.Especially netlist parser class and the functions of it.By the way, Does anyone know of a way to get the XML form of netlist?Or is it possible?
OCC is 7.5.2 these days and most likely outdated in 20.04
your wxWidgets would appear to be somewhat older as well
in my case I cloned wxWidgets master from their github(?) site
this will give a wxWidgets 3.1.6 currently
as already mentioned earlier by others, there are quite a few pieces to be put in place beforehand!
follow the ‘how to compile from source’ suggestions on the kicad site
it covers all software requirements
Why not use the stock schematic editor and write a S-expression to XML translator? Should be a much smaller job, especially if done in a scripting language where you can use a package that parses S-expressions, like Python and sexpdata.
These don’t matter - they are supposed to fail in the CMake log on older compilers because CMake is checking if the compiler supports them, so they aren’t the problem. The problem is the first error that was posted, which is the missing OpenCascade (occt) dependency.
There are no CMake errors shown in that output so you should be able to just run make and have it work. Note though that you have disabled the 3D viewer and appear to be using many CMake options that actually don’t exist in the newest KiCad releases - so which version are you trying to compile?
Hi.I m trying to compile 6.0.4 version of KiCad.
I always got an error without set off build properties OCC and OCE.
I actually,when I wrote these cmake build options, I didn’t get any error and I was able to build.Frankly, my goal is to add or remove some new tools to the toolbar on the eeschema side. Would turning off the build options I wrote on the Cmake side cause me trouble in this regard?
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DwxWidgets_USE_DEBUG=OFF -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=OFF -DKICAD_SCRIPTING=OF -DKICAD_USE_OCC=OFF -D KICAD_USE_OCE=OFF -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=OFF …
Did you ever try the instructions in How to build KiCad on Ubuntu (the easy way) · Wiki · eelik-kicad / kicad · GitLab? Last time I checked it has worked without problems, although I don’t remember anymore if I have tried 20.04/KiCad6 combination. The only thing different in your situation is that you want to enable the source repository for 6.0, not for nightly builds.
