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KiCad installation==================
The parts of KiCad------------------
KiCad consists of 3 components:
kicad - KiCad programs and core files. kicad-doc - Documentation and interactive help (optional package). kicad-library - KiCad schematic, pcb & 3D-model libraries (optional package).
This repository contains the source code for the main KiCad programs. The documentation and library sources are available at https://gitlab.com/kicad
Installation from binary packages---------------------------------
Compiled KiCad binaries exist for Windows (7, 8.1, 10), Mac OS (10.12+) and several Linux distributions (Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Arch). These are available from the main KiCad website: https://kicad-pcb.org/download/
Data files (schematic, boards, libraries) are compatible with all platforms.
Installation from binary packages for Windows---------------------------------------------
KiCad can be installed anywhere on the system as long as the user has write privileges. Pre-made installers are available on the KiCad website: https://kicad-pcb.org/download/windows/
Installation from binary packages for Linux-------------------------------------------
KiCad comes packaged on many Linux platforms including Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu and Arch, and is available in their respective package repositories. More information can be found on the platform's page at https://kicad-pcb.org/download/
Linux install tree-------------------------------------
The default locations KiCad uses to install its components on Linux are:
${prefix}/bin - Binaries (executable files). ${prefix}/lib/kicad - Shared libraries ${prefix}/share/doc/kicad/ - Various documentation. ${prefix}/share/doc/kicad/help - Interactive help. ${prefix}/share/kicad/demos - Sample schematics and printed boards. ${prefix}/share/kicad/template - Template projects and sheets. ${prefix}/share/kicad/library - Symbol libraries. ${prefix}/share/kicad/modules - Module libraries for printed boards. ${prefix}/share/kicad/modules/packages3d - 3D component models (.wrl and .step format).
KiCad searches for the libraries, templates, 3D models, etc. bin/../share.
Warning: Do not change the KiCad tree, or the location of binary files. Otherwise KiCad may not be able to find some or all of its required files.
Mac OS X KiCad tree-------------------
System wide files
/Library/Application Support/kicad/demos /Library/Application Support/kicad/internat /Library/Application Support/kicad/library /Library/Application Support/kicad/modules /Library/Application Support/kicad/modules/packages3d
User files can be the same as the system wide files but only inside the users home directory.
$HOME/Library/Application Support/kicad
Warning: These paths are hardcoded into KiCad, if you put them somewhere else KiCad will not find them when a new project is created.
Installation from source code-----------------------------
Currently the only supported compilers are GCC on linux and windows and clang on OS X.
Some dependencies must be satisfied for the correct installation of KiCad:
wxWidgets >= 3.0.0 http://www.wxwidgets.org/
CMake >= 3.0.2 http://www.cmake.org/
Boost C++ Libraries: >= 1.59 http://www.boost.org/
OpenGL >= 2.1 Linux: Mesa 3D Graphics Library http://www.mesa3d.org/ Windows: built-in
Zlib Compression Library http://www.zlib.net/
cairo >= 1.12 http://cairographics.org/
GLEW http://glew.sourceforge.net/
libcurl http://curl.haxx.se/
OpenMP (optional) http://openmp.org/
GLM >= 9.5.4 http://glm.g-truc.net/
pkg-config http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/
Doxygen (optional) http://www.doxygen.nl
python >= 2.6 (optional) http://python.org/
wxPython (optional) http://www.wxpython.org/
SWIG >= 3.0 (optional) http://swig.org/
libngspice (optional) http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/
One of: OCE >= 0.16 (optional) https://github.com/tpaviot/oce
OCC >= 6.8.0 (optiona) https://www.opencascade.com/content/latest-release
Complete documentation for building from source can be found in the developer documentation located in Documentation/development/compiling.md
Important parameters to cmake-----------------------------
See Documentation/development/compiling.md for a list of all CMake options available when compiling KiCad.
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=<buildtype> <buildtype> may current one of "Debug" and "Release".
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<prefix> Default to "/usr/local".
-DwxWidgets_ROOT_DIR=<wxInstallDir> Required for Windows platform.
-DwxWidgets_USE_DEBUG=ON Can be used only with -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=<some extra flags> Extra flags for the c++ compiler for your system required.
-DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON When more output is wanted use this cmake parameter or call "make VERBOSE=1".
Extra CFLAGS and linker flags-----------------------------
If you require extra flags for compiler and linker you may give them via environment variables "CXXFLAGS" (c++ compiler) "LDFLAGS" (for linker) "CFLAGS" (for c-compiler, not needed in kdesvn build)
eg., it may usefull on 64bit systems "-m64" to CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS.
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