Re: Trying to compile QUCS-S under NetBSD

[Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost>]

El 19/11/25 a las 21:53, Greg Troxel escribió:
> Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
>
> > Anyway, I have been able to compile QUCS-S. Instead of git cloning this:
> >
> > https://github.com/ra3xdh/qucs_s.git
> >
> > I downloaded a stable release:
> >
> > https://github.com/ra3xdh/qucs_s/releases/download/25.2.0/qucs-s-25.2.0.tar.gz
> >
> > I compiled with:
> >
> > $cmake .. \
> >    -DBISON_DIR=/usr/pkg/bin \
> >    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/ramiro/qucs-s \
> >    -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/usr/pkg/qt6 \
> >    -DCMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/pkg/include \
> >    -DCMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/pkg/lib \
> >    -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-I/usr/pkg/include" \
> >    -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="-L/usr/pkg/lib"
> >
> > $make -j8
> Yes, you are close.  Look for a package that has ".include" of
> ..../cmake/build.mk
> It is possible url2pkg will even do this for you.
>
> > $make install
> >
> > netbsd-nuc$ ./qucs-s
> > ./qucs-s: Shared object "libQt6SvgWidgets.so.6" not found
> > netbsd-nuc$
> >
> > netbsd-nuc$ ldd qucs-s
> > qucs-s:
> > 	-lQt6SvgWidgets.6 => not found
> > 	-lQt6Xml.6 => not found
> > 	-lQt6PrintSupport.6 => not found
> > 	-lQt6Svg.6 => not found
> > 	-lQt6Widgets.6 => not found
> > 	-lQt6Gui.6 => not found
> > 	-lGL.1 => not found
> > 	-lQt6Core.6 => not found
> > 	-lstdc++.9 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.9
> > 	-lm.0 => /usr/lib/libm.so.0
> > 	-lc.12 => /usr/lib/libc.so.12
> > 	-lgcc_s.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
> > 	-lpthread.1 => /usr/lib/libpthread.so.1
> >
> > I think I am close.
> You are.  Likely the pkgsrc build will not have those 'not found' as it
> sets up rpath correctly.


Hello Greg,

I’ve started reading the pkgsrc guide again in my small amount of free 
time (I haven’t finished it yet, nor fully understood everything), and I 
managed to create a preliminary package for QUCS-S. I’m not entirely 
sure how the internal magic worked or why it worked. I used url2pkg and 
then added some dependencies to the Makefile until the Qt6 compilation 
errors disappeared.

The package now compiles and installs. QUCS-S starts and can even 
simulate an example circuit. I’m sure it’s not fully correct, but for me 
it’s a good and encouraging starting point. I’m not sure about the 
dependency list, I’m not sure whether it will work on another computer, 
and I don’t know whether I just got lucky because all the dependencies 
happened to be present on my system—meaning it might fail elsewhere.

I still need to read the guide and keep learning how all of this works…


netbsd-nuc# cat Makefile
# $NetBSD$

DISTNAME=    qucs-s-25.2.0
CATEGORIES=    cad
MASTER_SITES=    ${MASTER_SITE_GITHUB:=ra3xdh/}
GITHUB_PROJECT=    qucs_s
GITHUB_RELEASE=    25.2.0
DIST_SUBDIR=    ${GITHUB_PROJECT}

MAINTAINER=    INSERT_YOUR_MAIL_ADDRESS_HERE # or use 
pkgsrc-users%NetBSD.org@localhost
HOMEPAGE=    https://github.com/ra3xdh/qucs_s/
COMMENT=    Qucs-S is a circuit simulation program based on Qucs circuit 
simulator.
#LICENSE=    # TODO: (see mk/license.mk)

USE_LANGUAGES=    bison c c++


CMAKE_CONFIGURE_ARGS+= -DBISON_DIR=${PREFIX}/bin
#CMAKE_CONFIGURE_ARGS+= -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/usr/pkg/qt6




.include "../../devel/cmake/build.mk"
.include "../../devel/qt6-qttools/buildlink3.mk"
.include "../../x11/qt6-qtbase/buildlink3.mk"
.include "../../graphics/qt6-qtsvg/buildlink3.mk"
.include "../../graphics/qt6-qtcharts/buildlink3.mk"
.include "../../mk/bsd.pkg.mk"

netbsd-nuc#

I will continue learning. Not sure about bison CMAKE_CONFIGURE_ARGS, 
sure it can be avoided...

Regards.

Ramiro.




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