QUCS-PKG - Quite Universal Circuit Simulator Packaging

Qucs is an integrated circuit simulator which means you are able to setup a circuit with a graphical user interface (GUI) and simulate the large-signal, small-signal and noise behaviour of the circuit. After that simulation has finished you can view the simulation results on a presentation page or window.

Resources

• Website: http://qucs.sourceforge.net/
• Main repository: http://sourceforge.net/p/qucs/git/
• Mirror repository: https://github.com/Qucs/qucs
• Mailing lists: http://sourceforge.net/p/qucs/mailman/
• Forum: http://sourceforge.net/p/qucs/discussion/
• Bug trackers:
  • http://sourceforge.net/p/qucs/_list/tickets
  • https://github.com/Qucs/qucs/issues
• Source code documentation:
  • http://qucs.github.io/qucs-doxygen/qucs/index.html
  • http://qucs.github.io/qucs-doxygen/qucs-core/index.html
• Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qucs/files/
• Translation platform: https://www.transifex.com/qucs/public/

Currently Supported Platforms

• GNU/Linux
• Darwin/OS X
• FreeBSD
• Windows

Source Download and Compilation

TODO: update these sections.

The source code is available as distribution tarballs and clones of the Git repository.

The distributed tarballs can be downloaded from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qucs/files/qucs/. Compilation and install from tarball is expected to work as follows (see dependencies below):

tar xvfz qucs[version].tar.gz
cd qucs[version]
./configure
make install

All versions of the code may be accessed by cloning one of the Git repositories (the first is updated more frequently):

git clone git://github.com/Qucs/qucs-pkg.git
git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/qucs/git @ not yet

Packages such as, qucsator (simulator) and qucs-test (test suite) are provided as Git submodules. To retrieve the submodules you may

• clone submodules recursively:
  • git clone --recursive [repository]
• or after cloning, do:
  • git submodule init
  • git submodule update

After an initial clone operation, the local copy is set by the default as the master branch. Branches can be listed and selected with the following commands:

git branch
git checkout [branch name]

Compilation and installation depends on the operation system. See below for an example.

Contributing to QUCS

Some general contribution guidelines can be found on our Wiki https://github.com/Qucs/qucs/wiki/Contribution.

More compile instructions on GNU/Linux

(This section may be outdated. Find up to date documentation in */README.md)

For the GUI tools and simulation engine the following packages are required when building from git (package names on non-Debian may vary).

 adms automake build-essential libqt4-dev libqt4-qt3support libtool libtool-bin
gperf flex bison pkg-config

To build the manuals and user documentation further dependencies are needed. Please check the qucs-doc/README file. See below the --disable-doc to skip building the documentation from source. To build the documentation from source the following packages are needed (package names on non-Debian may vary).

 doxygen latex2html octave octave-epstk ps2eps pgf python-tk
texlive-publishers texlive-science texlive texlive-font-utils
texlive-math-extra transfig gnuplot graphviz

Bootstrap, build, install everything (after cloning):

$ cd qucs
$ ./bootstrap
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install # optional

Compile Qucs GUI tools only:

$ cd qucs
$ [./bootstrap] #if not executed in the top level
$ ./configure
$ make

Compile qucs-core tools only:

$ cd qucs-core
$ [./bootstrap] #if not executed in the top level
$ ./configure
$ make

Compile qucs-doc documentation only:

$ cd qucs-doc
$ [./bootstrap] #if not executed in the top level
$ ./configure
$ make

Tests may be executed at the top level with:

$ make check

Note:

• Qucs will be installed to /usr/local by default. You may override this by passing --prefix=[some location] to the ./configure script.

• ADMS should be installed e.g. from a released tarball (>= 2.3.0). To use a different admsXml pass the option --with-admsxml=[path/to/]anotherAdmsXml to ./configure.

• The LaTex documentation compilation in qucs-doc can be skipped passing --disable-doc to the top level configure script.

• Consider INSTALL and the output of ./configure --help for more and definitive build options.

License

Qucs is under GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or 3.0 or any later version. See COPYING file.