Re: gEDA-user: Help with creating schematics that can be netlisted/placed via PCB

[Bill Wilson <billw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 10:56:10 -0400 (EDT)
sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson) wrote:

> My suggestion is to use gsch2pcb instead of "gnetlist -g PCBoard".
> Read Bill Wilson's tutorial about gsch2pcb here:
> 
> http://www.geda.seul.org/docs/current/tutorials/gsch2pcb/tutorial.html
> 
> The advantage to this is that you can specify which directories to use
> for your M4 and newlib footprints inside a resource file (which Bill
> calls the "project" file).  This may help solve your problem.  

Thats an old version of the tutorial.  There's only a few changes from
it but they are in particular with respect to the "newlib" directory locations
in recent PCB installs.  The most recent tutorial version can be found here:

    http://members.dslextreme.com/users/billw/gsch2pcb/tutorial.html

Bill