Installation¶

Requirements¶

Kmake is designed to work with KiCad 8.x. Kmake requires: python3 and python3-pip installed.

Installation (Debian)¶

1. Configure PATH:

   export PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH
   

2. Install requirements

   sudo apt install kicad python3 python3-pip
   

3. Update pip

   python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
   

4. Clone and install kmake:

   git clone https://github.com/antmicro/kmake
   cd kmake
   python3 -m pip install .
   

   Important: In some system configurations you may need to add --break-system-packages flag to above command.

Basic usage¶

Important: All commands should be issued from KiCad project root directory.

To show available functionalities run:

cd <KiCad project directory>
kmake --help