X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at papyrus.altaweb.hu Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 22:35:08 +0200 From: "Lev (leventelist AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-user] early results/problems trying to make pcb file parsers using SWIG Message-ID: <20150909223508.054c1f83@jive.levalinux.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.27; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.1) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by delorie.com id t89KZHto024656 Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 00:46:05 -0800 "Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" wrote: > Spent today on this. Britton, Thank you very much for doing this. I started to write a document about the proposed data structure. I'm going to push it when it gets to a point when it worth sharing. > SWIG itself was somewhat painful, had to rebuild most of pcb as shared > lib, but it calls into it ok now > Then come the problems with pcb itself... > > LoadPCB(char *) sounds good but apparently not, it seg faults I think I'd start it with gdb, and see what is the data, that is missing. > due to assumptions about things in global Settings already being > filled in. Down from there its something of a tangled web, as pcb > file and settings loading seem strangely intertwined. Anyone off-hand > know how/what to call to parse just the pcb file? > > This mess manifests itself to users as well with the strange rewriting > of the config file by pcb (I'd much rather just get error messages) > and lack of clarity where the settings are coming from. Not that I > have any idea how to clean it up > I hope I'll have some time in the weekend to hack on pcb. I think it would be nice to have the parser from pcb itself, and then the other way, read a database, and store the data inside pcb's data structures. Unfortunately, I have very limited bandwidth to work on this project, but I hope others will join us to help. Could you send me your working tree? Lev -- 73 de HA5OGL Op.: Levente