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Deleted user commented 4 years ago

Describe the bug
WireIt plugin does not start

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Copy WireIt.py and WireIt_icons into either ~/.kicad/scripting/plugins/ or ~/.kicad_plugins/
Start Pcbnew
Tools > External plugins... > Refresh plugins
Tools > External plugins...

Expected behavior
Expected WireIt to appear as an available plugin tool

Computing Environment
Application: Pcbnew
Version: 5.1.6-c6e7f7d86ubuntu18.04.1, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
libcurl/7.68.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1f zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.2.0) libssh/0.9.3/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.40.0 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 5.4.0-40-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
Boost: 1.65.1
OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
Curl: 7.58.0
Compiler: GCC 7.5.0 with C++ ABI 1011

Build settings:
USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
KICAD_SPICE=ON

Additional context
I had WireIt working before but now it does not. I did upgrade to a new version of Linux Mint recently, don't know if that coincides with when it stopped. I have one other plugin (SchematicPositionsToLayout) in the .kicad/scripting/plugins directory and Pcbnew does find that and it appears in the external plugins list, but not WireIt.

Deleted user commented 4 years ago

See above

xesscorp · Answer 1 · Wed Jul 29 2020 03:15:13 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I just tried with the latest WireIt:

cd ~/.kicad_plugins
git clone git://github.com/xesscorp/WireIt
kicad &
Open PCBNEW.
Tools => External Plugins... => Refresh Plugins... // WireIt (WireIt was already present without the refresh).

So I'm not sure why WireIt isn't appearing for you. I am running Ubuntu 20.04. Here's my system info:

Application: KiCad
Version: 5.1.6-c6e7f7d~87~ubuntu20.04.1, release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.68.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1f zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.2.0) libssh/0.9.3/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.40.0 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
    Boost: 1.71.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.68.0
    Compiler: GCC 9.3.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

Deleted user · Answer 2 · Fri Aug 14 2020 06:02:04 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I did exactly that and WireIt does not appear.

xesscorp · Answer 3 · Fri Aug 14 2020 09:53:23 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I just repeated the install process in my local .kicad_plugins directory and the icons appeared. Note that you have to execute the WireIt plugin; the icons don't appear when PCBNEW first starts.

I also found the icons don't appear the second time you start PCBNEW. You have to restart KiCad and then the icons will appear on the first invocation of PCBNEW. I have no idea what that's about.

Deleted user · Answer 4 · Fri Aug 14 2020 10:11:53 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I can't execute WireIt because it does not appear in the plugins submenu, even if I do refresh plugins. The one other plugin I have installed does appear.

Edit to add:

I think I found part of the problem; WireIt imports wx, which I did not have installed in python2. A test plugin that does nothing but import wx would not appear in the plugins submenu. I installed Python-wxtools. Now import wx works in Python2 and the test plugin does appear. However WireIt still does not. I infer there's some other error in executing WireIt.

xesscorp · Answer 5 · Fri Aug 14 2020 10:38:26 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

The only thing I can think of is that my version of Python is built by pyenv when it is installed and that rebuilds the wxpython library during the install. I noticed that my Boost and GCC compiler versions are more recent than yours. Maybe that's the difference.

Deleted user · Answer 6 · Fri Aug 14 2020 10:59:59 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I suppose the Boost and GCC versions shown by KiCad are the ones that were used to compile KiCad; they aren't the current ones on the system. I have GCC 9.3.0 installed and Boost I don't think is installed at all(?). Our Pcbnew revision numbers are the same but mine evidently was compiled for Ubuntu 18 and yours for Ubuntu 20. This Ubuntu 18 version is what I get if I follow the instructions to install KiCad at https://kicad-pcb.org/download/linux-mint/ which say to get it from ppa:kicad/kicad-5.1-releases.