Getting Started Doc: section 4.1, step 58

[finson]

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The doc says:

KiCad automatically generates the command, for example: xsltproc -o "%O" "/home//kicad/eeschema/plugins/bom2csv.xsl" "%I" You may want to add the extension, so change this command line to: xsltproc -o "%O.csv" "/home//kicad/eeschema/plugins/bom2csv.xsl" "%I"

At least in my case, when I did not add the extension, the BOM process failed:

Run command: xsltproc -o "D:/users/finson/repos/kicad/projects/jumperoo/stem-module" "C:\Program Files\KiCad\bin\scripting\plugins\bom2csv.xsl" "D:\users\finson\repos\kicad\projects\jumperoo\stem-module.xml"

Command error. Return code 11 Error messages: I/O error : Permission denied

Adding the .csv extension fixed the issue.

Run command: xsltproc -o "D:/users/finson/repos/kicad/projects/jumperoo/stem-module.csv" "C:\Program Files\KiCad\bin\scripting\plugins\bom2csv.xsl" "D:\users\finson\repos\kicad\projects\jumperoo\stem-module.xml"

Success

I'm not sure what exactly is failing (maybe a file rename?) but if this is true on all or many other systems, the doc at least should be updated to be more definite about adding the extension and why. The best fix would be in the code so that the default command doesn't generate an error, of course.

Doug Johnson

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My system:

OS: Windows 10 Pro, v1803, OS build 17134.590

Application: kicad Version: (5.0.2)-1, release build Libraries: wxWidgets 3.0.4 libcurl/7.61.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1 (WinSSL) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.6 libidn2/2.0.5 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5) nghttp2/1.34.0 Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW Build Info: wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) Boost: 1.68.0 OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1 Curl: 7.61.1 Compiler: GCC 8.2.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings: USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON KICAD_USE_OCE=ON KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF KICAD_SPICE=ON