How you ask? Plot first -> then read the PDF and print directly to the
platform-specific printers. Roundabout? Yes. Better than wx printing?
Darnbetcha.
Also allows multi-size page printing and proper margins and print
preview
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/1831
In modern Windows code WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN should be defined.
Without this define windows.h pulls in some legacy headers, notably
winsocks.h. Modern code that cares about winsocks includes winsocks2.h
which conflicts with winsocks.h. Other code that does not care about
winsocks (OpenGL, fontconfig, ...) includes windows.h pulling in legacy
winsocks.h, causing definition conflicts and build errors.
At worst defining WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN requires explicitly including some
additional headers on Windows.
Glew has the problem that it has to be selected at build time if GLX or
EGL is supported by the library, and this in not encoded in the library
name, nor ABI, nor anything.
Then it's easy to get into the situation that a binary is built but
cannot run because glew supports an API different from the one used by
wxWidgets, or the binary fails to link in the end after all objects are
compiled.
epoxy can support both with the same library avoiding this problem.
epoxy is not initialized explicitly, replaced initialization with
version check where one was not done already.
It seems to be available as vcpkg https://vcpkg.link/ports/libepoxy
There are problems related to GL context switching on Windows which does
not seem to be used in kicad
https://github.com/anholt/libepoxy#known-issues-when-running-on-windows
There is also a problem related to multithreaded rendering on Windows
https://github.com/anholt/libepoxy/pull/265 It's harder to tell if
threading is used for rendering but it does not look like kicad is doing
anything complex enough to warrant using multiple rendering threads.
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/20630
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/12543
This is so we can use the ENVIRONMENT_MODIFICATION feature across all platforms and simplify some QA cmake. Right now MSVC is special cased to use it since the other PATH variable editing doesn't work due to semicolon/colon issues in cmake parsing.
Having thread pool as its own singleton in the library meant that each
kiface had its own threadpool, leading to many multiples of the threads
being started. Placing a singleton class in PGM_BASE ensures that all
kifaces use the same thread pool.
The singleton class can be extended to provide single instance
guarantee for any element across kifaces
On msys2 a link issue (3 undefined symbols) prevent Gerbview to be built.
So I added this option (KICAD_ENABLE_3DMOUSE_GERBVIEW, enabled by default)
to disable 3Dconnexion support on request.
Schematics, symbols, boards and footprints all get the ability to store
files inside their file structures. File lookups now have a
kicad-embed:// URI to allow various parts of KiCad to refer to files
stored in this manner.
kicad-embed://datasheet.pdf references the file named "datasheet.pdf"
embedded in the document. Embeds are allowed in schematics, boards,
symbols and footprints. Currently supported embeddings are Datasheets,
3D Models and drawingsheets
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/6918
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/2376
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/17827
Mark Roszko
Ian McInerney
Seth Hillbrand
jean-pierre charras
Michal Suchanek
Jon Evans
Alex Shvartzkop