I had a problem in compiling kicad in Linux/CentOS-7

[jtyujulii]

I am trying to build kicad in school environment. I am stuck at OpenCascade. The error message is below:

– Found ngspice: /usr/local/include

*** OpenCascade library missing ***
Verify your OpenCascade installation or pass CMake
the library directory as ‘-DOCC_LIBRARY_DIR=’

CMake Error at cmake/FindOCC.cmake:162 (message):
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:870 (find_package)

– Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

Looks like I need to compile OpenCascade (I am using CentOS-7.)
Where can I get it?
Does it need many dependencies?

Thanks a lot,
-jtl

[paulvdh]

Feels like an open door, but a simple search:
https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=compile+opencascade

finds:

https://dev.opencascade.org/doc/overview/html/build_upgrade__building_occt.html

[hermit]

CentOS Linux has reached its End of Life (EOL)

RH has never really be interested in the desktop space. Trying to maintain packages that must update to survive in a changing/growing/evolving market space on a distro meant for rock solid server use is challenging. I think Fedora might be a little better in that regard, but, I’ve never used it.