kicad cannot see libngspice

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  • Guillaume Le Vaillant
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Christopher Howard wrote on 10 May 2021 19:58
(name . bug-guix)(address . bug-guix@gnu.org)
2c4719459ec1364cab9e0b0d454d2aaefe48dee2.camel@librehacker.com
In Kicad Eeschema, if I try to use the Tools >> Simulator menu entry, I
get an error in a pop-up window that libngspice cannot be found, and
then the whole Kicad application closes. I see that libngspice is a
dependency of kicad so I'm not quite sure what is wrong.

I asked at #kicad at they said that Kicad does not have any gui-
adjustable path settings for ngspice or libngspice, so I don't think I
have the application configured wrong.

Thank you,

Christopher Howard

christopher@theoden ~$ neofetch --stdout
christopher@theoden
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OS: Guix System 9ffa81fe64ee405e1a861b72a21bca966fcbc236 x86_64
Host: OptiPlex 9020 00
Kernel: 5.11.18-gnu
Uptime: 8 mins
Packages: 92 (guix-system), 104 (guix-user)
Shell: bash 5.0.16
Resolution: 1920x1080
DE: GNOME
Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3]
Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3]
Terminal: kitty
CPU: Intel i5-4570 (4) @ 3.600GHz
GPU: Intel HD Graphics
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon HD 8490 / R5 235X OEM
Memory: 1673MiB / 7871MiB

christopher@theoden ~$ guix describe
Generation 16 May 03 2021 09:42:36 (current)
guix 9ffa81f
branch: master
commit: 9ffa81fe64ee405e1a861b72a21bca966fcbc236
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Guillaume Le Vaillant wrote on 20 May 2021 23:50
(name . Christopher Howard)(address . christopher@librehacker.com)(address . 48336-done@debbugs.gnu.org)
87im3doz0v.fsf@kitej
Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com> skribis:

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> In Kicad Eeschema, if I try to use the Tools >> Simulator menu entry, I
> get an error in a pop-up window that libngspice cannot be found, and
> then the whole Kicad application closes. I see that libngspice is a
> dependency of kicad so I'm not quite sure what is wrong.
>
> I asked at #kicad at they said that Kicad does not have any gui-
> adjustable path settings for ngspice or libngspice, so I don't think I
> have the application configured wrong.

Fix pushed as f7d2ae57543ae6afe14434877d7480b15dcbb5b7.
I checked that the libngspice library is detected and that the
simulation window opens correctly, but I have not tried making
simulations of electronic circuits.
Please open another bug if you find a problem.
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Christopher Howard wrote on 22 May 2021 01:05
(name . Guillaume Le Vaillant)(address . glv@posteo.net)(address . 48336-done@debbugs.gnu.org)
49206b66a4d3a10966e9ed4b622d7730506124e4.camel@librehacker.com
Thank you. I ran a simulation based on a tutorial and the results of
the simulation were identical.

-----Original Message-----
From: Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv@posteo.net>
To: Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com>
Cc: 48336-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#48336: kicad cannot see libngspice
Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 21:50:40 +0000

Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com> skribis:
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> In Kicad Eeschema, if I try to use the Tools >> Simulator menu entry,
> Iget an error in a pop-up window that libngspice cannot be found,
> andthen the whole Kicad application closes. I see that libngspice is
> adependency of kicad so I'm not quite sure what is wrong.
> I asked at #kicad at they said that Kicad does not have any gui-
> adjustable path settings for ngspice or libngspice, so I don't think
> Ihave the application configured wrong.

Fix pushed as f7d2ae57543ae6afe14434877d7480b15dcbb5b7.I checked that
the libngspice library is detected and that thesimulation window opens
correctly, but I have not tried makingsimulations of electronic
circuits.Please open another bug if you find a problem.
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