fokko / homebrew-kicad

Homebrew tap for KiCad, the electronic design automation suite.

Homebrew KiCad EDA Suite

Now building --HEAD and 4.0.6 stable!

Delicious and foamy stable (and --HEAD!) Homebrew tap for KiCad. This is intended for anyone who wants to customize their build of KiCad, build latest stable release optimized for their specific version of OS X and using the latest version of boost and other dependencies.

Installation is simple...

brew tap metacollin/kicad
brew install kicad

...but it's good to have options...

--with-oce            # Use OC for native support several 3D model formats, including .STEP.
                      # Requires building --HEAD

--with-libngspice     # Enable SPICE simulation capabilities in eeschema using ngspice as the backend.
                      # Requires building --HEAD

--without-python      # If you're afraid of danger noodles.

--with-nice-curves    # Quadruples number of polys or segments used for curves and circles visually
                      # and in plot files (gerbers).

--HEAD                # Builds the latest development version of KiCad.

--debug               # Build with debugging turned on

Some things have changed

If you previously installed this tap, you should know that the included dependencies have been reworked and renamed. You may want to perform the following:

brew remove wxkicad # (and wxkdebug if installed)
brew remove kicad
brew untap metacollin/kicad
brew tap metacollin/kicad
brew install kicad

The dependencies have been split into two new formula, kicad-wxwidgets and kicad-wxpython. This is more robust and should be less error-prone than previous ways of dealing with the patched wx dependency.