Get Ready: Qt Creator IDE

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We have precompiled executables but if you're not using Windows 7 64 bit you may need to recompile the brd2svg program. This program is written in Qt!

We told you this would be fun right?

You can grab the compiler/IDE from https://www.qt.io/download-open-source/

You can skip the Qt account setup part

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Once installed, run Qt Creator

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Open up the project:

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And open brd2svg.pro in the eagle2fritzing/brd2svg folder

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Select Release build mode

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Build the project

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You may get warnings, thats OK - the software is still 'in progess'

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Once done you'll have a new build directory:

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which inside the release directory you'll find your brd2svg executable. Drag this into the eagle2fritzing/brd2svg directory.

If you run it you may get complaints about missing DLL's

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You can find these at C:\Qt\5.6\mingw49_32\bin

Just drag one at a time until you can run it without complaint

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Then from within a terminal command line you can run the tool. It will complain it needs files. This is OK! If you get this warning, you can move to the next step

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This guide was first published on Jul 05, 2016. It was last updated on Jul 05, 2016.
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