pcb2gcode

This is a complete rewrite of the original pcb2gcode in C++.

Quick Installation

This development version of pcb2gcode does not get into repositories of distros. If you want to test this version, you will have to go to the section below (installation from GIT).

Archlinux:

• pcb2gcode stable 1.1.3 -> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=50457
• pcb2gcode git 1.1.4 -> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=55198

Fedora:

• Download the latest tarball from https://github.com/pcb2gcode/pcb2gcode/releases

• Open a terminal and cd to the extracted tarball

• type the following:

  su
  <the root password>
  yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
  yum install automake autoconf libtool boost-devel gtkmm24-devel gerbv-devel
  exit
  ./configure
  make
  su -c 'make install'
  

• done.

Debian, Ubuntu:

There are pcb2gcode packages in the official repositories. You can install the with

sudo apt-get install pcb2gcode

Unfortunately, these packages are outdated (as 14/6/2015). If you want to download the latest development version, go to "Installation from GIT"

Installation from GIT (latest development version):

If you want to install the latest version from git you'll need the autotools, boost program options library (dev), boost geometry library (dev) gtkmm2.4 (dev) and libgerbv (dev). You can download them from your repositories; if you use Debian/Ubuntu type

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential automake autoconf libtool libboost-program-options-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev gerbv

or, if you use Fedora

su
<the root password>
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum install automake autoconf libtool boost-devel gtkmm24-devel gerbv-devel
exit

Then you can download pcb2gcode from git, build and install it

$ git clone https://github.com/pcb2gcode/pcb2gcode.git
$ cd pcb2gcode
$ autoreconf -i
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

Windows

You can easily build pcb2gcode for Windows with MSYS2 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/). Download MSYS2 and install it somewhere, then run "MinGW-w64 Win32 Shell" (if you want a i686 binary) or "MinGW-w64 Win64 Shell" (if you want a x86_64 binary). The following commands are for the i686 binary, if you want the x86_64 binary replace all the "/mingw32" with "/mingw64" and all the mingw-w64-i686-* packages with mingw-w64-x86_64-*

pacman -Sy
pacman --needed -S bash pacman pacman-mirrors msys2-runtime

Close and reopen the shell

pacman -Su
pacman --needed -S base-devel git mingw-w64-i686-gcc mingw-w64-i686-boost mingw-w64-i686-gtkmm

Now let's download, build and install gerbv (version 2.6.1 is broken, don't use it)

wget downloads.sourceforge.net/gerbv/gerbv-2.6.0.tar.gz
tar -xzf gerbv-2.6.0.tar.gz
cd gerbv-2.6.0/    
./configure --prefix=/mingw32 --disable-update-desktop-database
make
make install

Finally, download and build pcb2gcode

cd ..
git clone https://github.com/pcb2gcode/pcb2gcode.git
cd pcb2gcode/
autoreconf -i
./configure --prefix=/mingw32
make LDFLAGS='-s'

The dynamically linked binary is <msys2 installation folder>/home/<user>/pcb2gcode/.libs/pcb2gcode.exe. You can find all the DLLs in <msys2 installation folder>/mingw32/bin; copy them in the same folder of pcb2gcode. The required DLLs are:

• libatk-1.0-0.dll
• libboost_program_options-mt.dll
• libbz2-1.dll
• libcairo-2.dll
• libcairomm-1.0-1.dll
• libexpat-1.dll
• libffi-6.dll
• libfontconfig-1.dll
• libfreetype-6.dll
• libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll (for the i686 binary)
• libgcc_s_seh-1.dll (for the x86_64 binary)
• libgdkmm-2.4-1.dll
• libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll
• libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll
• libgerbv-1.dll
• libgio-2.0-0.dll
• libglib-2.0-0.dll
• libglibmm-2.4-1.dll
• libgmodule-2.0-0.dll
• libgobject-2.0-0.dll
• libgtk-win32-2.0-0.dll
• libharfbuzz-0.dll
• libiconv-2.dll
• libintl-8.dll
• libpango-1.0-0.dll
• libpangocairo-1.0-0.dll
• libpangoft2-1.0-0.dll
• libpangomm-1.4-1.dll
• libpangowin32-1.0-0.dll
• libpixman-1-0.dll
• libpng16-16.dll
• libsigc-2.0-0.dll
• libstdc++-6.dll
• libwinpthread-1.dll
• zlib1.dll

For further details, see INSTALL.