Hi There , I am using kicad on a MacBook Pro with macOS Catalina and my version of kicad is 5.1.4 , I have installed the latest java runtime environment and layoutEditor as well.
Still I have a problem with the file freerouting.jar…I seem to be doing eth right… from pcbnew I create a dsn file and I can even open it wihen I click on freerouting.jar and it actually does the routing… when I get a message telling me the routing has been completed I can export the file to kicad and see the result which is ok .
Sorry I’m using freeRouting on Linux so don’t have any experience with Mac. From what you say it sounds like a Mac specific problem. Or maybe it’s the very old JDK version that build used. Only thing I can suggest is to try the recent release from the maintainer who has taken on development of freeRouting. Be aware that the visual appearance will be different.
I followed the link you sent me and finally got it to work !!!
i found i had two different versions of java in my computer and maybe that was causing the problem. I deleted both then installed the new version of freerouting and i also installed the recommended version of java (java 11)and worked fine
I did try to download the version of freerouting that doesn’t need java but it wouldn’t work, when i tried to instal it i kept getting the message that the file is damaged and can’t be opened.
I think the version that “doesn’t need Java” includes all the needed objects so not dependent on the host system JDK. Anyway I only used the freeRouting jar from the distribution as I have a recent JDK on my system.
Let’s hope the developer makes more progress. The versions floating around were seriously out of date with JDKs.
