Not work gsch2pcb. Windows 7

[bagdades]

Log:
 C:\test>gsch2pcb test.sch -f
 =====================================================
 gsch2pcb backend configuration:

    ----------------------------------------
    Variables which may be changed in gafrc:
    ----------------------------------------
    gsch2pcb:pcb-m4-command: /usr/bin/m4
    gsch2pcb:pcb-m4-dir: /home/pcjc2/gedasrc/windows/minipack/result/share
 /pcb/m4
    gsch2pcb:pcb-m4-confdir: /home/pcjc2/gedasrc/windows/minipack/result/etc/p
 cb
    gsch2pcb:pcb-m4-path: /home/pcjc2/gedasrc/windows/minipack/result/share
 /pcb/m4 /home/pcjc2/gedasrc/windows/minipack/result/etc/pcb $HOME/.pcb .
    gsch2pcb:m4-command-line: /usr/bin/m4 -d -I/home/pcjc2/gedasrc/windows/min
 ipack/result/share/pcb/m4 -I/home/pcjc2/gedasrc/windows/minipack/result/etc/pcb
 -I$HOME/.pcb -I. /home/pcjc2/gedasrc/windows/minipack/result/share/pcb/m4/common
 m4 - >> test.pcb

    ---------------------------------------------------
    Variables which may be changed in the project file:
    ---------------------------------------------------
    gsch2pcb:use-m4: yes

 =====================================================
 Backtrace:
 In current input:
    1: 0* [gsch2pcb "test.pcb"]
 In c:\program files (x86)\geda\share\geda\scheme\gnet-gsch2pcb.scm:
  217: 1* (if gsch2pcb:use-m4 (let* # # # ...) (let # # # ...))
  219: 2 (let* (#) (display "Using the m4 processor for pcb footprints
 ") ...)
  219: 3* [open-output-pipe "/usr/bin/m4 -d -I/home/pcjc2/gedasrc/windows/minip
 ack/result/share/pcb/m4 -I/home/pcjc2/gedasrc/windows/minipack/result/etc/pcb -I
 $HOME/.pcb -I. /home/pcjc2/gedasrc/windows/minipack/result/share/pcb/m4/common.m
 4 - >> test.pcb"]
 In C:\Program Files (x86)\gEDA\share\guile\1.8/ice-9/popen.scm:
  211: 4 [open-pipe "/usr/bin/m4 -d -I/home/pcjc2/gedasrc/windows/minipack/res
 ult/share/pcb/m4 -I/home/pcjc2/gedasrc/windows/minipack/result/etc/pcb -I$HOME/.
 pcb -I. /home/pcjc2/gedasrc/windows/minipack/result/share/pcb/m4/common.m4 - >>
 test.pcb" ...]
 In unknown file:
     ...
    ?: 5 [open-pipe* "w" "/bin/sh" ...]
 In C:\Program Files (x86)\gEDA\share\guile\1.8/ice-9/popen.scm:
  142: 6 (let* ((port/pid #) (port #)) (pipe-guardian port) ...)
  142: 7* [apply #<procedure open-process (mode prog . args)> "w" ...]
 In unknown file:
    ?: 8 [open-process "w" "/bin/sh" ...]
 In C:\Program Files (x86)\gEDA\share\guile\1.8/ice-9/popen.scm:
     ...
   59: 9 (let* ((pid #)) (cond (# # #) (else # # #)))
   59: 10* (primitive-fork)

 C:\Program Files (x86)\gEDA\share\guile\1.8/ice-9/popen.scm:59:16: In expression
  (primitive-fork):
 C:\Program Files (x86)\gEDA\share\guile\1.8/ice-9/popen.scm:59:16: Unbound varia
 ble: primitive-fork
 No elements found, so nothing to do.

[DJ Delorie (djdelorie)]

Do you have a /usr/bin/m4 installed ?

[bagdades (bagdades)]

No ,
C:/Program Files/gEDA/share/pcb/m4

[bagdades (bagdades)]

I am using http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda-windows.html.

[Peter Clifton (pcjc2)]

Ah - that's why you emailed me first...

Ok - we have made some more recent builds of the tools, which could well be better for you...

See:

http://www.delorie.com/pcb/geda-windows/

Having said this, DJ's builds won't contain my printing patches, and unless you're going for the 1.7.x snapshots of gEDA - there haven't been any changes (to gEDA) since I built my last release based on gEDA 1.6.1.

PCB has seen a lot of improvement in the releases DJ is building from - compared to the version I last packaged.

[bagdades (bagdades)]

Thank you, I will try.

[bagdades (bagdades)]

I am download build-20110921.zip . How to install?

[bagdades (bagdades)]

pcb-20110918.exe running well.

[DJ Delorie (djdelorie)]

The build-*.zip is intended to be just unzipped and run as-is, however, I don't test it, so I can't say that it will work. You'll need to follow the instructions on http://www.delorie.com/pcb/geda-windows/

[bagdades (bagdades)]

gschem starts the following ways:

[DJ Delorie (djdelorie)]

Yes, that means you aren't setting the environment variables correctly. You need to either set them globally, or run gschem from a window in which they are set.

[bagdades (bagdades)]

My environment variables.

[Peter Clifton (pcjc2)]

The unbound "primitive-fork" suggests that the guile install is broken (due to env-vars or "something").

"primitive-fork" isn't something gEDA calls directly, its guile's popen implementation.

Guile defines primitive-fork in posix.c, but ONLY if HAVE_FORK is #defined.

I guess our build doesn't have that. (Does Windows have a "fork" call?)

I was this was working (at some point) - but perhaps not.

It might be worth checking out whether Guile 2.0 sucks any less than the one we currently build with for Win32. IIRC, gEDA should now be compatible with that.

[Peter Clifton (pcjc2)]

(^^^ I was sure this was working (at some point) - but perhaps not.)

[DJ Delorie (djdelorie)]

I tested pcb's importer, but not gsch2pcb. PCB doesn't use guile, so wouldn't have seen this. Perhaps your test had the m4 libraries disabled?

[bagdades (bagdades)]

After installation http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda-gaf-1.6.0+cairo_printing-1.exe gschem starts normally, without any notice, using the same environment variables.

Post : pcb's not working. File -> Import Schematics.

[bagdades (bagdades)]

Log start gschem build-20110923

[DJ Delorie (djdelorie)]

cp bin/libguile-srfi-srfi-1-v-3-3.dll bin/libguile-srfi-srfi-1-v-3.dll

[bagdades (bagdades)]

Thanks, this helped solve the problem with the first message, but what about others?

[bagdades (bagdades)]

Does not affect the presence of other programs? MinGW, WinAVR.

[bagdades (bagdades)]

I solved the problem:
gsch2pcb --m4-pcbdir build\share\pcb\m4 -d buid\share\pcb\pcblib *.sch

[Traumflug (mah-jump-ing)]

Marking this as 'fix released', because the problem appears to be solved. In case it's still there, please open a new bug.