Re: Kicad missing symbols and footprints

[Peter Polidoro]

phodina <phodina@protonmail.com> writes:

> Hi Peter and Guillaume,
>
> thanks for the help.
>
> I've tried to use the Guix shell to have a complete environment 
> for Kicad but for some reason it does not work (at least for me)
>
> So here are the steps to reproduce:
>
> $ guix shell kicad kicad-footprints kicad-symbols -- kicad
>
> I start I new project and when I get the dialog about the 
> components I wish to use in the project it all starts to go 
> wrong.
>
> The path to the symbols and footprints is also attached.

I may be running into a similar problem.

I modified the kicad package to set the KICAD7_3RD_PARTY 
environment variable as a native search path.

The environment variable is set properly according to the env 
shell command, but kicad reports the path as a concatenation of 
the default value and the environment variable.

If there is not a problem with guix concatentating environment 
variables somehow, then I assume there may be a bug in the kicad 
source code regarding environment variables.

I reported the issue to the kicad developers, but have not heard 
any response yet.