Error opening Kicad [solved]

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Hello,

I am a newbie in Kicad. I installed Kicad stable version 64 bit in my windows 7 64 bit machine. Also I was able to do a turorial .Created project and schematic , pcb layout and gerber files successfully. But today when I tried to open a downloaded project from numato lab site I get error “file’x:\xx\xxx.pro’ , line 859 : ‘=’ expected”. Why do this happen? I tried to open through File -> Open Project in Kicad main window. Any suggestion on how to open project.

Thanks in advance.

With Regards
shhys

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It’s probably not a Kicad project. What is the URL of the project you downloaded?

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This link?

The .pro file in that board folder there doesn’t have 859 lines… and the projects loads fine in BZR6608 too.

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Line 89 though has an entry with two hyphens:
LibName32=timvideos-pcie-8x

I wonder if this is causing problems with Windows. I try to not to use the more dangerous characters affecting Windows/Linux portability

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Hm… as I said, no probs for my install (Win7 64Bit).

Underscores and Hyphens won’t cause problems afaik - they’re used on either side regularly.
Slashes and Backslashes are most troublesome for me.

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Hello,
Thank you so much for your replies. Sorry for my delayed reply, I was not available some days.
Finally I opened project after a reinstall and rescue operation and loading associated libraries.
With regards
shhys

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