On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 7:34 AM Holger Vogt <holger.v...@uni-due.de> wrote:
> To obtain version information of the currently available libngspice-0.so > version, you might do the following: > > load libngspice-0 dynamically > initialze libngspice > send the command 'version -s' > retrieve some text response similar to the following: > > ****** > ** ngspice-34 > ** Please get your ngspice manual from > http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/docs.html > ** Please file your bug-reports at > http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/bugrep.html > ** Creation Date: Fri Jan 29 14:27:27 UTC 2021 > ****** > > check for ngspice, get the version number > unload libngspice > > There was a discussion about retrieving the version information here: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/4833, and it looks like Holger even mentioned that config.h includes the version information so that is why Wayne used it. The main thing is, having to load the simulator just to get the version information is a very complicated thing for our system to handle. The ngspice code in KiCad is only in one specific window, and the help windows are available from all programs. The reason the build-time info (from config.h) was chosen is because that information can be exposed to all the help windows and included in the version string the entire time. -Ian
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