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Date:	Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:11:50 -0700
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:42:34 -0400
Bob Paddock <bob DOT paddock AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

> > I cannot get gschem to work on Windows.
> 
> Are you trying the release or the daily snap shots?
> Try the other.

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the response.  I tried both the snapshot and release.
PCB at least has tool palette icons in the release version but I
haven't checked much else to see how it works.

> I was able to bring up gshcem when I built the release files a
> few months ago. Don't know the status of the snap shots right now.

I can't get gschem to run on my Windows XP box.  I get similar
results with release and snapshot version.

Snapshot:

C:\geda-20120318\bin>gschem
ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path:
ERROR: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path


Release:

C:\gEDA-1.7.1_pcb20110918_GerbV250\bin>gschem

C:\gEDA-1.7.1_pcb20110918_GerbV250\bin>

^^^ Nothing happened, just immediately got the command prompt back.

C:\gEDA-1.7.1_pcb20110918_GerbV250\bin>gnetlist -h
ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path:
ERROR: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path

C:\gEDA-1.7.1_pcb20110918_GerbV250\bin>


So gnetlist and gschem seem to have issues loading some scheme
scripts.  The release version of gschem doesn't print an error
message (snapshot version does print an error), but release version
of gnetlist does.

I see that the boot-9.scm file does exist, under the
share\guile\1.8\ice-9 subdirectory of the C:\geda-* install
directory.  Perhaps I need to set an environment variable to tell
gEDA what the Scheme search path should be?

> > Some colleagues of mine are considering using either an
> > expensive commercial EDA suite, or EAGLE,
> 
> Get vendor lock in either way with those.

Absolutely.  And who in their right mind wants that?!

> > However, they are Windows users.  I hoped that gEDA would work
> > on Windows
> 
> Me too.  Many of us are stuck in the Windows world at work.
> So far there have been other priorities for me, so I've not
> gotten to fixing things up yet.
> I'm sure that applies to the others with interest in Windows as
> well.
> 
> PCB part on Windows is not bad, only major annoyance with it is
> printing and library paths.

Is it possible to do printing from pcb on Windows?  Is there a
trick to it?

What about the library paths issue?  At first glance I don't see
anything in the pcb footprint library when running pcb and hitting
'i'.

(There was also some discussion a while ago about getting OpenGL
support on Windows, but I recall there was some issue that made it
difficult or impossible.  Peter Clifton, are you there?  You are
the OpenGL Grand Master.  I'm sure you could answer this.)

Regards,
Colin

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