I also use CLion. It's okay but not perfect. It's been a while since I've been compiling on my Mac but from what I recall, the most frustrating part is the need to re-generate all of the application packages whenever anything is touched (which is a slow and non-parallel process).
It's possible that implementing one of the possible fixes for https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1826649 will also enable faster incremental builds on MacOS -Jon On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 10:07 AM Adam Wolf <adamw...@feelslikeburning.com> wrote: > I use CLion, but I also would love to see kicad-mac-builder improved > to the point where it could do the right things for dev, as well. > > Adam > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 7:45 AM Jonatan Liljedahl <li...@kymatica.com> > wrote: > > > > Are there any developers on macOS that would like to give me some > > hints on how to set up a good environment? Currently I'm using > > kicad-mac-builder, but it's not well suited for the kind of iterative > > rebuilding during development. > > > > 1. It applies the patches each time. > > 2. It resets the git repo each time. > > 3. It re-downloads all docs etc each time. > > 4. It does not rebuild the changed source files. > > > > So for now, I've just commented out the docs dependency and commands > > for applying the patches and resetting git, etc. > > > > But it still does not rebuild when I change some source file, so I need > to do: > > > > make -f CMakeFiles/Makefile2 CMakeFiles/kicad.dir/clean > > > > and rebuild, which probably takes more time than needed. > > > > -- > > /Jonatan > > http://kymatica.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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