readme outdated or wrong

[nonchip]

there's no Eagle2Kicad executable/script/whatever in the repo, but documented in the readme (but looking at the code it seems that's the correct documentation for the CLI part of Start.py).

also the Start.py just script complains about requiring TKinter for the GUI, instead of for example just printing the CLI usage instead (something like "Error Starting GUI. install TKinter or use the following command line options: ...").

[abetusk]

@nonchip nonchip, I had to install some Tk libraries to get it working. I'm not sure if this will do it but you might want to try the following:

sudo apt-get install python-tksnack python-tk pypy-tk

Some of those packages might be superfluous.

Eagle2Kicad also requires Python3. After install the above packages, this "worked for me":

python3 Start.py

In response to your request for a dependency free command line version, I made a fork of this project and made a "proper" executable that does not require Tk called eagle2kicad. Feel free to take a look.

[nonchip]

@abetusk i'm on void linux, so the command is different, but i also just needed the cli anyway. but then it turned out i have no clue what to do with the produced files, as kicad seems to want some folder structure they call .pretty and don't really document...

i see your version also uses the "inFile", "symFile", "modFile" scheme, could you tell me what to do with those to get them into kicad?

[abetusk]

@nonchip, I think this is getting into more KiCAD specific territory. I haven't used KiCAD in a while but I think there have been updates, including maybe using new module files (what was previously .mod is now .pretty?).

The inFile is the input Eagle file, just as it is with this version of the repository. I believe the symFile is the output KiCAD schematic library file and the modFile is the output footprint library file. You'll need to figure out out to convert those over to what KiCAD expects and figure out how to import them. This might be as easy as pointing KiCAD to those newly derived files and/or renaming them with the extensions it expects (such as .pretty). You'll have to consult KiCAD documentation or other online resources.

I added "#!/usr/bin/env python3" to the top of Start.py and chmod 755 Start.py, and had to "sudo apt-get install python3-tk" to get it to run at all. And after all that it still didn't work. My .brd file IS from Eagle, but it's in some binary format not xml, so maybe it's from some other version than 6.x. The script should be able to detect and say that instead of just:

 bkw@negre:~/src/Eagle2Kicad$ ./Start.py
 Conversion Failed
 Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./Start.py", line 101, in convertBoard
    node = getRootNode(fileName)
  File "./Start.py", line 71, in getRootNode
    node.parse(fileName, parser)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 603, in parse
    parser.feed(data)
  File "", line None
 xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 0

The file I'm trying to convert is Rex.brd from inside of REX_STD.zip from here http://www.club100.org/memfiles/index.php?&direction=0&order=&directory=Steve%20Adolph/REX/info

OSH Park accepts the brd file, so it's at least a valid file of some sort.

[gh-jmg]

Did you try loading this Eagle file directly into the latest (nightly) KiCad to check ?
http://downloads.kicad-pcb.org/windows/nightly/
V5 has a better native Eagle file loader.

If that does not load, you could ask the authors of your link, to include a Eagle format version that does load ?