cad/kicad-devel r20260912105930_7 DragonFly

Schematic and PCB editing software

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License: GPLv3
Categories: cad
Package size: 125910.7 KiB, 576551.6 KiB installed

Description

Kicad is an open source (GPL) software for the creation of electronic schematic diagrams and printed circuit board artwork.

Designed and written by Jean-Pierre Charras, a researcher at LIS (Laboratoire des Images et des Signaux) and a teacher in IUT de Saint Martin d'Heres (France), in the field of electrical engineering and image processing.

Kicad is a set of four softwares and a project manager:

\* Eeschema: Schematic entry.
\* Pcbnew: Board editor.
\* Gerbview: GERBER viewer (photoplotter documents).
\* Cvpcb: footprint selector for components used in the circuit design.
\* Kicad: project manager.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is r20261024034035, as upstream numbers it.

System

Port

Version

Vulnerabilities

Status

Maintainer

Last update

DragonFly

cad/kicad-devel

r20260912105930_7

none known

[email protected]

FreeBSD

cad/kicad-devel

r20261024034035_2 newest

none known

[email protected]

2026-11-04

MidnightBSD

cad/kicad-devel

r20260428191158_5 behind since 2026-11-11

no data

[email protected]

2026-11-04

Version history 1

r20260912105930 2026-11-11

Upstream's version as each commit to the port's Makefile set it, or as this site first saw it in the system's packages; the tree's own revisions are not versions here.

Install

Binary package:

pkg install kicad-devel

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/cad/kicad-devel && make install clean

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

graph LR
  me["cad/kicad-devel"]
  u0["cad/kicad-library-footprints-devel"] --> me
  u1["cad/kicad-library-symbols-devel"] --> me
  u2["cad/kicad-library-templates-devel"] --> me
  me --> d0["accessibility/at-spi2-core"]
  me --> d1["cad/ngspice_rework"]
  me --> d2["cad/opencascade"]
  me --> d3["databases/unixODBC"]
  me --> d4["devel/boost-libs"]
  me --> d5["devel/desktop-file-utils"]
  me --> d6["devel/gettext-runtime"]
  me --> d7["devel/glib20"]
  me -.-> dmore(["27 more"])
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts: none

Message after installing

If you plan to create 3D shapes for Printed board modules,
install the 3D modeler wings3D (port graphics/wings).

Pcbnew uses the exported files in wrml (.wrl) format from
wings3d (not the native .wings format).