an IDE for microcontrollers and electronics
KTechLab is an IDE for microcontrollers and electronics. It supports circuit simulation, program development for microcontrollers and simulating the programmed microcontroller together with its application circuit.
KTechLab is joining KDE, all of its assets will be available there.
current webpage: https://userbase.kde.org/KTechlab TODO better webpage at KDE
repository browser at KDE (web based): https://commits.kde.org/ktechlab https://invent.kde.org/sdk/ktechlab
source code repository at KDE (to be used with git): [email protected]:sdk/ktechlab.git
bugtracker at KDE: https://bugs.kde.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=KTechLab
mailing list at KDE: ktechlab-devel at KDE https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/ktechlab-devel Archives contain the messages from the old list, too
on IRC, KTechLab developers regularly join the channel
#ktechlab
, on Libera Chat
source code repositories: see Getting the source section, below
KTechLab on github (will become deprecated)
https://github.com/ktechlab/ktechlab-0.3 (archive only; merged into the above repoistory)
new commits will be always pushed to KDE Git, github will be a mirror only
KTechLab on sourceforge (mostly deprecated; source code downloads are available)
the official communucation channel is hosted at KDE; the mailing list on sourceforge will become deprecated; it is called ktechlab-devel
KTechLab's source code is located in a GIT repository.
Official repository is hosted at KDE; its location is at
[email protected]:sdk/ktechlab.git
repository browser https://invent.kde.org/sdk/ktechlab
for write access, see section Write access to KTechLab repository at KDE, below.
Deprecated official repositories located on github; they mirror code from KDE, and also have branches named github/* for historical reference. For new code use the KDE Git.
https://github.com/ktechlab/ktechlab
https://github.com/ktechlab/ktechlab-0.3
Other notable deprecated GIT repositories are located on sourceforge:
main KTechLab repository (deprecated, use KDE Git):
git://ktechlab.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/ktechlab/ktechlab
developers' own repositories (deprecated, use KDE Git):
git://ktechlab.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/ktechlab/ktl-alonzotg
git://ktechlab.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/ktechlab/ktl-j_ohny_b
git://ktechlab.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/ktechlab/ktl-zoltan_p
Checking out from GIT can be performed with the following commands:
git clone git://github.com/ktechlab/ktechlab.git
cd ktechlab
Required dependencies
Optional dependencies
In KDE Frameworks 5, all Makefiles in KDE projects are generated using CMake. After checking out the source (see Getting the source), here is how to compile and install KTechLab. CMkake is not a run-time dependency of KTechLab.
By using a terminal, navigate to the top-level source-directory
Run the shell script build-simple.sh
.
This command compiles KTechLab into the directory build-simple
,
installs it into the directory inst-simple
and
sets up the user-specific settings (syscoca, mime database) for the
current user.
sh build-simple.sh
Launch KTechLab by running the script run-simple.sh
sh run-simple.sh
KTechLab should start running at this point. If this simple method of launching KTechLab does not work, please contact the developers, because you have found a bug.
It the source directory has been moved, then the setup procedure has to be rerun. This is due to the fact that in the launch scripts of KTechLab, absolute directory paths are generated. The compilation step should be a lot faster than previously, because the source files have not been changed, so the existing build is just verified, not recreated.
sh build-simple.sh
sh run-simple.sh
Just open/import the CMakeLists.txt project file.
Please read the KDE Git manual:
https://community.kde.org/Sysadmin/GitKdeOrgManual
You need:
KDE developer account; should be usable at identity.kde.org
; see
https://community.kde.org/Infrastructure
https://community.kde.org/Infrastructure/Get_a_Developer_Account
An SSH key should be registered at KDE and usable on your computer.
Set up git for usage with KDE Git Infrastructure https://community.kde.org/Infrastructure/Git https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Git/Configuration git config --global user.name <Your Real Name> git config --global user.email <Your identity.kde.org email>
cat ~/.gitconfig
[url "git://anongit.kde.org/"]
insteadOf = kde:
[url "[email protected]:"]
pushInsteadOf = kde:
Clone KTechLab repository; current location is temporary: git clone kde:scratch/padrah/ktechlab
Pushing should work with the URL rewrite rules from step 2.
See
Have fun with KTechLab!