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Anakievs

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Registered: 2023-06-12

Posts: 10

How to fix KiCad w/ nvidia-340 driver (eglCreatePlatformWindowSurface)

The old Nvidia GPUs with nvidia-340 (and possibly nvidia-390) driver don't support EGL. When I run "eeschema" or "pcbnew" it gives this error:

20:55:09: Failed to load shared library '/usr/bin/_eeschema.kiface': /usr/lib/libwx_gtk3u_gl-3.2.so.0: undefined symbol: eglCreatePlatformWindowSurface
20:55:09: Failed to load kiface library '/usr/bin/_eeschema.kiface'.
20:55:09: Error loading editor.

To fix it you have to compile wxWidgets and KiCad without EGL:

1. Download PKGBUILD and apply the patch:

--- original	2023-06-13 17:43:30.649386490 +0300
+++ modified	2023-06-14 10:16:14.117793045 +0300
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
     -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=None \
     -DwxBUILD_TOOLKIT=gtk3 \
     -DwxUSE_OPENGL=ON \
+    -DwxUSE_GLCANVAS_EGL=OFF \
     -DwxUSE_REGEX=sys\
     -DwxUSE_ZLIB=sys \
     -DwxUSE_EXPAT=sys \
@@ -30,25 +31,9 @@
     -DwxUSE_GTKPRINT=ON
   cmake --build build-gtk3
 
-  cmake -B build-qt5 -S wxWidgets-$pkgver \
-    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
-    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=None \
-    -DwxBUILD_TOOLKIT=qt \
-    -DwxUSE_OPENGL=ON \
-    -DwxUSE_REGEX=sys \
-    -DwxUSE_ZLIB=sys \
-    -DwxUSE_EXPAT=sys \
-    -DwxUSE_LIBJPEG=sys \
-    -DwxUSE_LIBPNG=sys \
-    -DwxUSE_LIBTIFF=sys \
-    -DwxUSE_LIBLZMA=sys \
-    -DwxUSE_LIBMSPACK=ON \
-    -DwxUSE_PRIVATE_FONTS=ON
-  cmake --build build-qt5
-
 # Run configure to generate the Makefile, cmake doesn't install translations
   cd wxWidgets-$pkgver
-  ./configure --prefix=/usr
+  ./configure --disable-glcanvasegl --prefix=/usr
 }
 
 package_wxwidgets-common() {
@@ -81,18 +66,5 @@
 }
 
 package_wxwidgets-qt5() {
-  pkgdesc='Qt5 implementation of wxWidgets API for GUI'
-  depends=(qt5-base wxwidgets-common libmspack sdl2 libtiff)
-  provides=(wxwidgets)
-
-  DESTDIR="$pkgdir" cmake --install build-qt5
-  rm -r "$pkgdir"/usr/{include,lib/libwx_base*,bin/wxrc*}
-  mv "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/wx-config{,-qt} # Conflicts with wx-gtk3
-# Rename cmake files for coinstallability
-  mv "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/cmake/wxWidgets{,Qt}
-  for _f in "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/cmake/wxWidgetsQt/*; do
-    mv $_f $(dirname $_f)/$(basename $_f | sed -e 's/wxWidgets/wxWidgetsQt/')
-  done
-
-  install -Dm644 wxWidgets-$pkgver/docs/licence.txt "$pkgdir"/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE
+  true
 }

2. Build the source code and install the new packages wxwidgets-common and wxwidgets-gtk3.

3. Download PKGBUILD and the patches. Remove this line from PKGBUILD:

-D KICAD_USE_EGL=ON \

4. Build the source code and install "kicad".

5. Start "pcbnew" if you see this error go to the next step (if not you are done):

Could not use OpenGL, falling back to software rendering
Could not find shader uniform: SMAA_RT_METRICS

6. Delete this folder "$HOME/.config/kicad" (backup if you have something for backup).

7. Start "KiCad" navigate to "Preferences-> Preferences...-> Common-> Antialiasing-> Accelerated Graphics:" and change "Fast Antialiasing" to "No Antialiasing". For me it also works with "High Quality Antialiasing".

If step 7 doesn't work you can read for other possible solutions here.

Notes:
- if you use wxWidgets for something else it will probably brake
- wxwidgets-qt5 is never used so I've removed it for faster compilation
- KiCad compilation is slow and you have to recompile it on update (for old hardware might take more than 5 hours). I've used a different PC with 12 threads at 4.3 GHz and it took 25 minutes.
- you don't have to rebuild "kicad-library" and "kicad-library-3d". Install them from the official repository.

Changelog:
14.06.2023: prevent the patch from failing when "pkgver" or "pkgrel" change

Credits goes to here, here and Lone_Wolf.

More nvidia-340 fixes here:
How to fix vdpau in mpv with the nvidia-340 driver

Last edited by Anakievs (2023-06-14 11:11:07)

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,938

Re: How to fix KiCad w/ nvidia-340 driver (eglCreatePlatformWindowSurface)

build() {
  cmake -B build-gtk3 -S wxWidgets-$pkgver \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=None \
    -DwxBUILD_TOOLKIT=gtk3 \
    -DwxUSE_OPENGL=ON \
    -DwxUSE_REGEX=sys\
    -DwxUSE_ZLIB=sys \
    -DwxUSE_EXPAT=sys \
    -DwxUSE_LIBJPEG=sys \
    -DwxUSE_LIBPNG=sys \
    -DwxUSE_LIBTIFF=sys \
    -DwxUSE_LIBLZMA=sys \
    -DwxUSE_LIBMSPACK=ON \
    -DwxUSE_PRIVATE_FONTS=ON \
    -DwxUSE_GTKPRINT=ON
  cmake --build build-gtk3

  cmake -B build-qt5 -S wxWidgets-$pkgver \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=None \
    -DwxBUILD_TOOLKIT=qt \
    -DwxUSE_OPENGL=ON \
    -DwxUSE_REGEX=sys \
    -DwxUSE_ZLIB=sys \
    -DwxUSE_EXPAT=sys \
    -DwxUSE_LIBJPEG=sys \
    -DwxUSE_LIBPNG=sys \
    -DwxUSE_LIBTIFF=sys \
    -DwxUSE_LIBLZMA=sys \
    -DwxUSE_LIBMSPACK=ON \
    -DwxUSE_PRIVATE_FONTS=ON
  cmake --build build-qt5

# Run configure to generate the Makefile, cmake doesn't install translations
  cd wxWidgets-$pkgver
  ./configure --prefix=/usr
}

It looks like cmake does the brunt of the configuration while ./configure is only used to add translations.
Try disabling GLCANVASEGL through cmake.

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Anakievs

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Registered: 2023-06-12

Posts: 10

Re: How to fix KiCad w/ nvidia-340 driver (eglCreatePlatformWindowSurface)

Thanks! -DwxUSE_GLCANVAS_EGL=OFF fixed the compilation.

Last edited by Anakievs (2023-06-14 11:10:48)