Hi Tom- Relevant discussion here: https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg25762.html
FWIW, I don't think there's a technical reason why. -S 2018-03-06 9:44 GMT-08:00 Tomasz Wlostowski <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > I've been trying to fix [1] without success: ngspice will not load > another circuit if the current one contains fatal errors. Under some > circumstances, this segfaults KiCad. > > The only solution I see is to bring back dynamic > (dlopen()/wxDynamicLibrary) loading of ngspice DLL every time the > simulator is launched, since unloading and reloading again resets > ngspice's internal state and releases all allocated resources. The early > versions of the simulator had worked like this but later it was changed > to traditional linking reportedly due to some issues on OSX with dynamic > library loading. I can't find any trace of information about these > DLL-related issues - so I'm calling our Mac devs here to reply if > anybody remembers why this change was done. > > If no one gives a solid reason to stay with a hard-linked ngspice DLL, > I'll revert the ngspice plugin to use wxDynamicLibrary. > > Tom > > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1753092 > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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