I’m a developer of https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD.
Under GPLv2.0, LibreCAD focuses on 2D geometry and CAD, and is currently available in the Ubuntu main repository.
This request is for snaps of the current git master branch(Qt6 based), i.e. the latest development, and the pending release 2.2.1 branch.
For 2.2.1, the app is Qt5 based, and an example snapcraft.yaml has been created:
https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/blob/2.2.1/snapcraft.yaml
I have look at your snap and is seems 100% ready to run. What kind of help do you ask ?
The snap file are ok, What kind of help you need?
Hi,
Two issues:
1, the current snapcraft file is for qt6, and if someone can help with the qt6 version, it helps.
2, I thought there’s some approval procedure, so the snaps can be added to the official repository. Ideally, user can find different versions in search. Like stable, release candidate, and latest development, etc.
Best regards,
Dongxu Li
You need to request a name first, you can build and link the snap latter, exists no penalty for register a snap name and don’t use it immediately (you can keep the name without use forever btw).
Just click in register name, and fallow the steps. it will asked for a reason, You can say you’re maintainer of LibreCAD and link the github account.
+1 with Cosmiclace
About QT 6 support it seems not documented yet (perhaps not possible yet). For QT 5, the best doc pages I know are:
Thanks a lot.
Our qt5 snap works well, and looking forward to getting it pushed auto from GitHub.
I will continue to try cmake build for qt6. Currently, cmake always fails to find some qt6 components, even installed, like qt6-svg-dev.
Hi,
I still need some help with librecad snap. Currently, it builds and installs normally, but the app won’t start and the error message is:
QSocketNotifier: Can only be used with threads started with QThread
(librecad:37091): Gtk-WARNING **: 17:15:52.259: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:1:21: Failed to import: Error opening file /home/dli/snap/librecad/x14/.config/gtk-3.0/colors.css: No such file or directory libEGL fatal: DRI driver not from this Mesa build (‘23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1’ vs ‘23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.2’)
Here is my snapcraft.yaml
I think you need to use a Qt5 desktop helper for setting up GL properly:
Or you can depend on kde-neon extension for that. Also I don’t see you including the necessary opengl, desktop plugs.
1/ kde-neon extension is visual QT5 (qt5 + mesa … etc)
so you don’t need to add qt5 libraries in stage or build
nor its dependencies
NB: kde-neon-6 is visual QT6
2/ The warning is also because you use qmake plugin which is based on qt5-qmake package with a different version of QT than kde-neon
Thus you need to use the make plugin and call the qmake from kde-neon
Still need some work (there is a problem with freetype and I don’t know about others none-qt dependencies) but it runs:
name: librecad
version: '2.2.1-rc4'
grade: stable
base: core22
confinement: strict
license: GPL-2.0
summary: "librecad: is a 2D open source CAD"
compression: lzo
description: |
LibreCAD is a cross-platform 2D CAD program written in C++17. It can read DXF/DWG files
and can write DXF/PDF/SVG files. It supports point/line/circle/ellipse/parabola/spline
primitives. The user interface is highly customizable, and has dozens of translations.
Code repository:
https://www.github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD
environment:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH: $SNAP/usr/local/lib/:$SNAP/usr/lib/$CRAFT_ARCH_TRIPLET_BUILD_FOR/:$SNAP/usr/lib64/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
apps:
librecad:
command: usr/bin/librecad
plugs:
- home
- desktop
- desktop-legacy
- opengl
- wayland
- unity7
- x11
desktop: usr/share/applications/org.librecad.librecad.desktop
common-id: org.librecad.librecad.desktop
extensions:
- kde-neon #kde-neon-6
plugs:
desktop:
mount-host-font-cache: false
icon-themes:
interface: content
target: $SNAP/data-dir/icons
default-provider: gtk-common-themes
sound-themes:
interface: content
target: $SNAP/data-dir/sounds
default-provider: gtk-common-themes
kf5-5-113-qt-5-15-11-core22:
content: kf5-5-113-qt-5-15-11-core22-all
interface: content
default-provider: kf5-5-113-qt-5-15-11-core22
target: $SNAP/kf5
gtk-3-themes:
interface: content
target: $SNAP/data-dir/themes
default-provider: gtk-common-themes
parts:
librecad:
plugin: make #qmake
#qmake-parameters:
# - "QMAKE_CFLAGS+=-march=x86_64"
# - "QMAKE_CXXFLAGS+=-march=x86-64"
#build-environment:
# - QT_SELECT: qt5 #qt6
source: .
build-packages:
- build-essential
#- qtbase5-dev #qt6-base-dev
#- qttools5-dev #qt6-tools-dev
#- qttools5-dev-tools #qt6-tools-dev-tools
#- librsvg2-bin
#- libqt5waylandclient5-dev #qt6-wayland-dev
#- libfreetype6-dev
#- libicu-dev
#- libqt5opengl5-dev #libqt6opengl6-dev
#- libcairo2-dev
#- libpango-1.0-0
#- libpango1.0-dev
- libboost-dev
- libgl1-mesa-dev # avoid openGL fatal error: GL/gl.h: No such file or directory
#- libqt5svg5-dev #libqt6svg6-dev
#- libgtest-dev
#- libcurl4-gnutls-dev
#- libgtk-3-dev
- rsync
override-build: |
# craftctl default
export QT_SELECT=qt5
/snap/kf5-5-113-qt-5-15-11-core22-sdk/current/usr/lib/qt5/bin/qmake 'QMAKE_CFLAGS+=-isystem $CRAFT_STAGE/usr/include' 'QMAKE_CXXFLAGS+=-isystem $CRAFT_STAGE/usr/include' 'QMAKE_LFLAGS+=-L$CRAFT_STAGE/lib -L$CRAFT_STAGE/usr/lib -L$CRAFT_STAGE/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu'
make -r -j$(nproc)
#stage-packages:
#- libfreetype6
#- libqt5gui5 #libqt6gui6
#- libqt5printsupport5 #libqt6printsupport6
stage:
- -usr/share/pkgconfig
override-stage: |
#echo "1"
#echo $PWD
#find .. -type f -name librecad
export SRC_DIR=../parts/librecad/build/unix
echo $CRAFT_STAGE
mkdir -p $CRAFT_STAGE/usr/bin
mkdir -p $CRAFT_STAGE/usr/share/librecad
mkdir -p $CRAFT_STAGE/usr/share/applications
mkdir -p usr/bin
mkdir -p usr/share/librecad
cp -a $SRC_DIR/librecad $CRAFT_STAGE/usr/bin/
#cp -a $SRC_DIR/ttf2lff $CRAFT_STAGE/usr/bin/
cp -a $SRC_DIR/resources/* $CRAFT_STAGE/usr/share/librecad/
export DESKTOP_DIR=../parts/librecad/src/desktop
cp -a $DESKTOP_DIR/*.desktop $CRAFT_STAGE/usr/share/applications/org.librecad.librecad.desktop
cp -a $DESKTOP_DIR/org.librecad.*.xml $CRAFT_STAGE/usr/share/applications/org.librecad.librecad.xml
craftctl default
override-prime: |
rsync -av ../stage/* ./
craftctl default
Total awesomeness! Btw, could a link to the snap package (Snap Store) be added to LibreCAD websites download section now? https://librecad.org/#download
Many newcomers can’t get AppImages going because they need to be made executable through terminal and AppImage support on Ubuntu is not OOTB (because of fuse package’s version decision by the AppImage’s strange decision making developer).