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eagleUp on WINE

How to setup CadSoft's EAGLE, Trimble's SketchUp and Jerome Lamy's eagleUp (which relies heavily on ImageMagick) to play nicely together under WINE on Linux:

Test Environment

This setup was tested on Linux 4.0.5 with WINE 1.7.45, EAGLE 7.2.0, SketchUp 2015, ImageMagick 6.9.1-6-Q8-x86-static and eagleUp 4.5.

eagleUp 4.5 Modification

eagleUp 4.5 suffers from a minor bug, which prevents it to import the actual layout of your PCB into SketchUp under WINE. The bugfix is simple and also works on native Windows:

Download eagleUp 4.5 and unpack the archive.
Unzipping the file eagleUp_import.rbz under "Sketchup Plugin" results in the following directory structure:

eagleUp
├── demo files
│   ├── demo3d.brd
│   └── demo3d.sch
├── Eagle ULP
│   └── eagleUp_export.ulp
└── Sketchup Plugin
    ├── eagleUp_import
    │   └── eagleUp_import.rb
    ├── eagleUp_import_loader.rb
    └── eagleUp_import.rbz

Add .chomp to line 736 of eagleUp_import.rb:

%x[#{line.chomp}]    # change of system input/output syntax

Repack the rbz file:

[Sketchup Plugin]$ zip -r eagleUp_import.rbz eagleUp_import \
eagleUp_import_loader.rb

OR simply download my ready-made-file with some small additional fixes:

eagleUp_import.rbz
804f7e05f0dbd3d8b49c6080d801216aacb2f36f134fe82f61c635e0ac91aca3 (SHA256)

Setup Procedure

Create a fresh 32bit wine prefix
Run EAGLE setup
Run ImageMagick setup
Copy eagleUp_export.ulp and models to the appropriate directories in your wine prefix as described in eagleUp Installation instructions
Run Sketchup setup (includes .NET)
Modify winecfg

Set Windows Version: Windows 7
Add native library override: *msvcrt.dll

Launch SketchUp and add the extension eagleUp_import.rbz
Launch EAGLE, load the eagleUp demo board and run eagleUp_export.ulp
Follow eagleUp Installation instructions for Initial Setup and configure the paths of the ulp according to your setup
Test export from EAGLE and import into SketchUp

Errata

Export of an animation as h264/mp4 encoded video file does not work. Use raw/avi or webm instead.