From: me@martinyr.com
Subject: cad/kicad: missing RUN_DEPENDS on libngspice
To: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:49:06 +0000

eeschema in kicad-9.0.3p0v0 fails to run due to a missing dependency on libngspice

   $uname -a
   OpenBSD martinr-desk 7.8 GENERIC.MP#54 amd64

   $LD_DEBUG=1 kicad-cli sch export bom -o bom.txt project.kicad_sch

   loading: libngspice.so.0.0 required by /usr/local/bin/_eeschema.kiface
   dlopen: failed to open libngspice.so.0.0
   unload_shlib called on /usr/local/bin/_eeschema.kiface
   unload_shlib unloading on /usr/local/bin/_eeschema.kiface
   dlopen: /usr/local/bin/_eeschema.kiface: done (failed).
   11:26:35: Error: Failed to load shared library '/usr/local/bin/_eeschema.kiface': Cannot load specified

Installing the libngspice package resolves this issue and the GUI schematic editor now also runs