Electronics > KiCad

KiCad 8.0 On Windows 7

(1/5) > >>

PitD:
The Doktor described in his posts a method for Windows 7
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/kicad/kicad-7-0-5-on-windows-7-no-vm-easy!/
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/kicad/kicad-7-0-9-install-on-windows-7-easy!/

In version 7.11 everything works OK.
I have the same problem as fionut in version 8.02

Failed to load library 'C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\_eeschema.dll'. (error 127: The specified procedure could not be found.)
Unable to load KIFACE library 'C:\Program Files\KiCad\8.0\bin\_eeschema.dll'.
Error loading editor.

The _eeschema.dll file is in the bin folder.

Everything except the schematic editor works :( |O

The Doktor:
Yes, that's the current problem. I am planning to try to get it working sometime in the next couple of weeks, but as I have little experience in programming, I would have to say don't hold your breath.

Ed

j0t:
I did managed to get the schematic editor working in Windows7.
The main problem is call to CreateFile2 from _eeschema.dll which is missing in Windows7.
Please check https://github.com/j0t/kicad87/releases/tag/R1 for wrapper _eeschema.dll which tries to resolve this issue.

DuckDuck1:
Thanks for information. Does it mean that Kicad 8.0.4 installed according to steps by Doktor for Kicad 7 (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/kicad/kicad-7-0-9-install-on-windows-7-easy!/) and  wrapped as you have described, completely works on windows 7?

j0t:
Yes, it might be installed as suggested by Doktor. The main issues to be resolved in general, were:


* get KiCAD installed somewhere
* make the required version of python working
* make api-ms-win-core-file-l1-2-0.dll available both for python and KiCAD
Now for KiCAD8 we have another issue - a reference to missing import from _eeschema.dll.

Regarding of completeness of this hack- I really don't know, this would require an excessive testing of the whole system.
Anyway, now I can run the schematic editor, open, create and save schemas.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page