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yaqwsx / PcbDraw

Convert your KiCAD board into a nicely looking 2D drawing suitable for pinout diagrams
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Solve Windows compatibility #23

Closed yaqwsx closed 2 years ago

yaqwsx commented 4 years ago

Currently, PcbDraw has a dependency on several Python libraries. This is a problem on Windows, where KiCAD brings its own, binary incompatible, version of Python - the dependencies cannot be installed (it would be necessary to compile them using Msys2).

The proposed solution - split PcbDraw into two executables - the first one, with no dependencies, exports all necessary data from KiCAD to files, the second one (with Python dependencies) finishes the work. There will be a wrapper to automate the process; on Windows, it will run the first step using the KiCAD's Python, the second step is executed via system Python. This also solves the problem with Python2 compatibility on Windows - it should be fairly easy to write a Python2 compatible first stage.

mikelemo commented 4 years ago

When I run the pcbdraw command of windows 10 an Error like this pops up: 'Try to install:\n ' + msg) ImportError: MagickWand shared library not found. You probably had not installed ImageMagick library. Try to install: http://docs.wand-py.org/en/latest/guide/install.html#install-imagemagick-on-windows

still doesn't work after installing image magick and restarting the same error appears...

yaqwsx commented 4 years ago

I am aware of the problem, unfortunately, I am not able to solve without KiCAD migrating to Python 3 - which should happen with KiCAD 6 release.

yaqwsx commented 3 years ago

KiKit already works on Windows with KiCAD nightly. The installation is a little clumsy, but we will provide clear instructions once stable version is released.

mikelemo commented 3 years ago

KiKit already works on Windows with KiCAD nightly. The installation is a little clumsy, but we will provide clear instructions once stable version is released.

Huh ok cool I'll be giving it a try soon! wonder when kicad 6 be out...

yaqwsx commented 3 years ago

Unfortunately, the panelization still does not work as KiCAD 6 misses some essential parts of API we rely on.

yaqwsx commented 2 years ago

With KiCAD 6 release, this is no longer relevant.