FYI kicad 7.0.10 built successfully on slackware64 15.0
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Distribution: Slackware 15.0 64-bit & Current 64-bit
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FYI kicad 7.0.10 built successfully on slackware64 15.0
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Just to let you know, I spent many days using all SlackBuild scripts to install/upgrade/re-install of all kicad 7 packages and their circa five dozen dependencies to build kicad 7.0.10 based on Slackbuilds scripts based on [ Sat Jan 6 01:09:44 UTC 2024 ] and earlier onto the slackware64 15.0 platform that was fully patched.
I modified the kicad, kicad-doc, kicad-footprints, kicad-packages3D, kicad-symbols, and kicad-templates to reflect 7.0.10 instead of 7.0.2 (kicad-doc) and/or 7.0.9 (the rest of the kicad packages).
No build problems at all. Just be prepared for it to take several days on a reasonably modern machine.
I did a quick power up of kicad and gave it a cursory run thru.
Thanks, Slack-uke. I built Kicad in 2013 and it was bad then for depencies. I do remember a few days churning on my 2Ghz (AMD) Turion of the day. Now Kicad seems terrible to build. But it served me nicely. Nothing else in linux touches it for PCBs. The whole simulator bit has been added since. Is that simulator any use?
Last edited by business_kid; 01-14-2024 at 10:57 AM.
Distribution: Slackware 15.0 64-bit & Current 64-bit
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No fear! I built kicad-7.0.10 last month and it took less than an hour on i7-4790.
Now let's move to kicad-8!
Argghhhhh LoL
Well good thing is that most of the dependencies are up to date so should not be as painful. Also tend not to shift till it has been hashed out thus a later variant such as 8.0.9 or later.
Distribution: Slackware 15.0 64-bit & Current 64-bit
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Thanks, Slack-uke. I built Kicad in 2013 and it was bad then for depencies. I do remember a few days churning on my 2Ghz (AMD) Turion of the day. Now Kicad seems terrible to build. But it served me nicely. Nothing else in linux touches it for PCBs. The whole simulator bit has been added since. Is that simulator any use?
I will have to ask my brother as he is the electrical engineer, I am just a mechanical engineer and had been preparing the packages for his use. My brother had been using a much older variant possibly kicad 4.X on a slackware64 14.0 or 14.1 os so I am bringing him up into the 2020's.
Yes, the packages would be great. Alternatively, you could do this massive 'requirements.txt' file where they could possibly be installed with something like
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pip3 install requirements.txt
Should there be '-r' in there? pip3 install -r requirements.txt?
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