bug#48336: kicad cannot see libngspice

bug#48336: kicad cannot see libngspice

[Christopher Howard]

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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.

Thank you,

Christopher Howard

christopher@theoden ~$ neofetch --stdout
christopher@theoden 
------------------- 
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
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: master
    commit: 9ffa81fe64ee405e1a861b72a21bca966fcbc236



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bug#48336: kicad cannot see libngspice

[Guillaume Le Vaillant]

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Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com> skribis:

> 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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bug#48336: kicad cannot see libngspice

[Christopher Howard]

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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:
> 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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