Running on Windows

[jnavila]

Running on Windows

[jnavila]

plotgitsch.exe version 0.8.0 is downloadable from the release page: https://github.com/jnavila/plotkicadsch/releases/download/v0.8.0/plotgitsch.exe

Are you trying to compile the master branch? I haven't compiled on windows for a while and it's still a difficult task as I only rely on an external build pipeline.

[jnavila]

Did you opam pin add kicadsch . ?

You don't really need to use the opam command. Try make build and get the binary in "_build/default/plotkicadsch/src/plotgitsch.exe`

[jorlee99]

Did you opam pin add kicadsch . ?

You don't really need to use the opam command. Try make build and get the binary in "_build/default/plotkicadsch/src/plotgitsch.exe`
Hi there, so I am trying to get this on windows so thanks for your help!

the opam pin add kicadsch . and opam pin add plotkicadsch . worked and now both packages are installed. Going through your tutorial on the user guide I hit another roadblock. I run the following command within the kicad_playground directory and get the following

$plotgitsch
fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD^commit': unknown revision or path not in the wor king tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this: 'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]' use compare (ImageMagick) between bitmaps between Git rev HEAD and file system .

If you could lend a hand that would be great!

[jnavila]

The argument should be HEAD^{commit}. So the curly braces have been removed... Are you using PowerShell? Curly braces have a special meaning in PowerShell and they are removed when passed to the program.

If you have another shell (bash, cmd.com), could you try with it?

[jorlee99]

I have tried this with git bash as well as cygdrive (bash and a unix based terminal). this is the following output out of cygdrive

$ plotgitsch schematic/kicad_playground.kicad_pcb
fatal: ambiguous argument 'schematic/kicad_playground.kicad_pcb^commit': unknown
 revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
use compare (ImageMagick) between bitmaps between Git rev schematic/kicad_playgr
ound.kicad_pcb and file system .
Git Exception: cannot parse rev schematic/kicad_playground.kicad_pcb

and this is the one out of bash

$ plotgitsch schematic/kicad_playground.kicad_pcb
fatal: ambiguous argument 'schematic/kicad_playground.kicad_pcb^{commit}': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
use compare (ImageMagick) between bitmaps between Git rev schematic/kicad_playground.kicad_pcb and file system .
Git Exception: cannot parse rev schematic/kicad_playground.kicad_pcb

I'm not sure if this is any help? Seems like the same error.

[jnavila]

Hello,

The command is not plotgitsch schematic/kicad_playground.kicad_pcb . This utility compares schematics, not PCB. As stated in the small tutorial, plotgitsch only accepts revisions as parameters. Comparing specific files can only work if you specify a *.sch file with the -f option.

[leoheck]

Hey @jnavila thanks for your help. plotgitsch is working on Windows with WSL, which is actually linux hehe.

Issues with Opam were fixed by disabling the sandboxing.

opam init --disable-sandboxing --reinit