Motivation

Install PCB-CAD system on multi-platform.

Preparation

Download necessary files for Kicad installation.

1. Mesa

   Kicad used GLCanvas class of wxWidgets of Mesa. Latest snapshot as Ver.6.5.2 on 2006/Dec/27.

   http://www.mesa3d.org/

2. wxWidgets

   To use latest snapshot as wxWidgets 2.8.0 on 2006/Dec/27. wxWidgets supports many types of wrapper, use Gtk+ wrapper in this time as well.

   http://www.wxwidgets.org/

3. Kicad

   To use latest snapshot as 20061208RC1 on 2006/Dec/27.

   http://www.lis.inpg.fr/realise_au_lis/kicad/

Install

root account is needed for all of installation work.

1. Mesa

   wxWidgetsのGLCanvasクラスにて使用される。 Mesa is used by GLCanvas of wxWidgets.

   1. Download MesaLib, MesaGLUT from http://www.mesa3d.org/.
   2. make linux
   3. make install

2. wxWidgets

   Library for GUI application program development on PS3Linux.

   1. Download wxGTK from "http://www.wxwidgets.org".
   2. rm *.cache
   3. ./configure --enable-unicode=no --enable-shared=no --enable-monolithic --with-gtk --enable-gtk2=yes --with-opengl --disable-universal --disable-compat24 --with-libpng=builtin --with-libjpeg=builtin --with-libtiff=builtin --with-zlib=builtin --with-regex=builtin
   4. To use GLCANVAS class for following fix is needed

      .libs/wx/include/gtk2-ansi-release-2.8/wx/setup.h

      Change definition from 0 to 1 of wxUSE_GLCANVAS

      from #define wxUSE_GLCANVAS 0

      to

      #define wxUSE_GLCANVAS 1

   5. make
   6. make install

3. Kicad
   1. Download Kicad from http://www.lis.inpg.fr/realise_au_lis/kicad/.
   2. Change setting file as

      libs.linux

      Comment out variable which directs static-link.

      from

      KICAD_STATIC_LINK = 1

      to

      #KICAD_STATIC_LINK = 1

   3. make
   4. make install

How to execute

1. Directory setting

   Kicad needs folder setting for library and so on,

   To make following directries of under /usr/local/kicad

   • /demos
   • /help
   • /internat
   • /library
   • /linux
     • /plugins
     • cvpcb
     • eeshema
     • gebview
     • kicad
     • pcbnew

2. Directory setting

   Inconvinient above setting, you can download and install Windows version of Kicad.

3. path setting

   In the last line .bash_profile

   export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/kicad/linux"

   is added

4. Execute

   kicad [Enter]

Future

1. Report with in acutal operation

2. Cell(SPE) Power

   Beyond Graphic workstation such as SGI ?

Thanks to

Thanks to Mr.T.M and his contribution work.

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