Ecad

Compiling Kicad on Debian Bookworm

This is an updated blog post from the 08-05-2025, to ensure that you can enjoy to compile the latest version of Kicad and its dependencies.

With my new hobby, there came the desire to learn to build and design my own PCB. With that in mind, I began to use the open source ecad solution Kicad. Now I became interested in participating in this project, but, to compile the code you have endure a few challenges - you know, collecting the dependencies,installing them, choose the right branch whiche compiles down and so on. Here I want to show you my experience with that.