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Installing KiRI Dependencies

To install this tool on any Operating System, open a terminal and execute the following commands:

Windows users must use WSL/WSL2. See, Windows preparation section.

MacOS users must have homebrew. See, MacOS preparation section for extra details.

Installing (and reinstalling) dependencies:

bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://github.com/raw/leoheck/kiri/main/install_dependencies.sh)"

Windows Preparation

Configure WSL

For WSL1, on a Powershell terminal with admin right, execute the following commands:

# Enable Windows Subsystem for Linux (using Power Shell)
dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux
#Install-WindowsFeature -Name Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux

# Install Ubuntu 20.04
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://aka.ms/wsl-ubuntu-2004 -OutFile ~/Downloads/ubuntu-2004.zip
New-Item -Path C:\ubuntu-2004 -ItemType Directory
Expand-Archive -Path ~/Downloads/ubuntu-2004.zip C:\ubuntu-2004
Set-Location C:\ubuntu-2004
& .\ubuntu2004.exe

For WSL2, on a Powershell terminal with admin right, execute the following commands:

wsl --set-default-version 2
wsl --install -d ubuntu

Also, if Kicad 6 is installed, xdotool is used to plot schematics (.kicad_sch) and it requires a X Window System Server. Some of the alternatives include Xming, Cygwin, and Mobaterm.

MacOS Preparation

After installing dependencies on macOS, if Kicad 6 is installed, it uses cliclick to plot schematics which needs System Preferences → Security & Privacy → Accessibility enabled for the Terminal.

Installing KiRI

Installing (and reinstalling) KiRI:

bash -c "INSTALL_KIRI_REMOTELLY=1; \
    $(curl -fsSL https://github.com/raw/leoheck/kiri/main/install_kiri.sh)"

The following variables can be used to change the installation path and KiRI's branch, if needed.

# The default installation path is "${HOME}/.local/share"
# It can be changed which the KIRI_INSTALL_PATH environment variable:
export KIRI_INSTALL_PATH=${HOME}/.local/share

# To test a different branch of Kiri, use the following environment variable:
export KIRI_BRANCH=main

Post-Installation

Setup the environment using following commands.

Make sure KIRI_HOME is the right path to the installation folder

# KiRI Environment
eval $(opam env)
export KIRI_HOME=${HOME}/.local/share/kiri
export PATH=${KIRI_HOME}/submodules/KiCad-Diff/bin:${PATH}
export PATH=${KIRI_HOME}/bin:${PATH}

On Windows/WSL, it is needed to launch the XServer (e.g Xming) and also have the DISPLAY set correctly. Add the following lines in the end of the ~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc to set DISPLAY. Also, launch kicad manually or any other GUI tool like xeyes to test if X11 is working.

# Set DISPLAY to use X terminal in WSL
# In WSL2 the localhost and network interfaces are not the same than windows
if grep -q "WSL2" /proc/version &> /dev/null; then
    # execute route.exe in the windows to determine its IP address
    export DISPLAY=$(route.exe print | grep 0.0.0.0 | head -1 | awk '{print $4}'):0.0

else
    # In WSL1 the DISPLAY can be the localhost address
    if grep -qi "Microsoft" /proc/version &> /dev/null; then
        export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
    fi

fi

Docker

Since KiRI involves a bunch of tools and some complex settings, there is a repo that shares a Docker image to provide simple use. This is a separate project and can be found here Kiri-Docker