KiCad build without 3D Connexion library

[Jan Wichmann]

Hello developers,

I am currently having a problem:
I would like to build Kicad from the current master without the 3D Connexion SPNAV library.

When I set the library in cmake from required to optional, I get lots of error messages such as:

Make Error in thirdparty/json_schema_validator/CMakeLists.txt:
[cmake]   Found relative path while evaluating include directories of
[cmake]   "nlohmann_json_schema_validator":
[cmake]
[cmake]     "SPNAV_INCLUDE_DIR-NOTFOUND"

Is it intentional that I can only build Kicad with the library, or is there a way to build it without this library again?

BR

Jan

[Seth Hillbrand]

Short answer: it is intentional that we require this library to build. 

Long answer:

We generally optimize the build system for reliability in our CI builds and reproducibility in our bug reports.  Every option we include effectively doubles the number of potential configurations that we need to maintain.  And the more time maintaining these, the less time developing CAD software

You are welcome to maintain your own patches on top of KiCad that blank this behavior (or any other) out.  If I'm wrong and it is indeed easy to maintain then it will create no issue to periodically update in response to code changes :) 

Seth

Seth Hillbrand

Lead Developer

+1-530-302-5483‬

Long Beach, CA

www.kipro-pcb.com    in...@kipro-pcb.com

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