KiCad

Footprint editor crash to desktop when loading Eagle library

Bug #1829243 reported by James Fialho on 2019-05-15

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	KiCad	Fix Released	Critical	Wayne Stambaugh	KiCad 5.1.3

Bug Description

Using version (5.1.2)-1 release build, adding "con-molex.lbr" provided with EAGLE 6.5.0 causes the footprint editor to suddenly close with no error message towards the end of the "loading footprints" progress dialog.

Adding the library and browsing the contents works reliably in KiCad 4.0.7. I added the library to the project using 4.0.7 and then upon reopening the footprint editor in 5.1.2, the crash occurs again. Opening the project in 5.0.2 doesn't crash the footprint editor, but the library appears empty in the footprint browser.

Version info:

Application: kicad
Version: (5.1.2)-1, release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.61.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1 (WinSSL) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.6 libidn2/2.0.5 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5) nghttp2/1.34.0
Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
    Boost: 1.68.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.61.1
    Compiler: GCC 8.2.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON