Can't compile kicad on stable (15.0)

aikempshall · 05-18-2024, 07:47 AM

Get error -

Quote:

[ 32%] Building CXX object common/CMakeFiles/common.dir/database/database_connection.cpp.o
In file included from /usr/include/sql.h:19,
from /home/packages/tmp/SBo/kicad-8.0/common/database/database_connection.cpp:41:
/usr/include/sqltypes.h:56:10: fatal error: unixodbc.h: No such file or directory
56 | #include "unixodbc.h"
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [common/CMakeFiles/common.dir/build.make:4420: common/CMakeFiles/common.dir/database/database_connection.cpp.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:3239: common/CMakeFiles/common.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:166: all] Error 2

If I backout unixODBC-2.3.12 in favour of unixODBC-2.3.11 kicad-8.0 compiles succesfully.

Something to do with this line in unixODBC.SlackBuild (2.3.11) changing from

Code:

  --includedir=/usr/include \

to

Code:

  --includedir=/usr/include/unixodbc \

business_kid · 05-18-2024, 11:24 AM

Kicad is a great PCB builder, but a pig to compile.

If you use the Search button at the top of the page, you'll find there have been a couple of threads recently on compiling Kicad. Beware of Necro threads!! Some kind soul (@Dunc, IIRC) even built them and put the packages on his github repo for me. If you had done a thread search, you should have spotted that. The 5 minutes it takes to search always beats the day you wait for an answer, before someone like myself comes along and abuses you for not doing the obvious

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...-a-4175737151/
See Post #12 if you want his direct link.

aikempshall · 05-20-2024, 03:09 AM

Same applies to LibreOffice -

Quote:

checking which dragonbox to use... internal
checking which frozen to use... internal
checking which libfixmath to use... internal
checking which glm to use... external
checking for glm/glm.hpp... yes
checking which odbc headers to use... external
checking for sqlext.h... no
configure: error: odbc not found. install odbc

Reverting to unixODBC-2.3.11 allows LibreOffice to compile.

We now need for the upstream developers to catch up with unixODBC

it would appear that unixODBC is a requirement for LibreOffice

henca · 05-20-2024, 01:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aikempshall

We now need for the upstream developers to catch up with unixODBC

The problem is not a change between upstream versions 2.3.11 and 2.3.12 of unixODBC. The problem is that the SlackBuild script for unixODBC has been modified to place unixODBC include files in a non standard directory. By default the configure script of unixODBC would place its include files in the directory PREFIX/include where PREFIX correctly is set to /usr by the SlackwBuild script.

But as OP stated, giving the flag --includedir=/usr/include/unixodbc in the SlackBuild script seems really like a bad idea.

regards Henrik