I see! But isn't gerbview always run standalone? Running pcbnew and eeschema from the main kicad project manager works fine from the build directory, as long as you don't open a pcb or schematic which are not named the same as the project - then it will launch a standalone instance.
On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 12:14 PM Ian McInerney <ian.s.mciner...@ieee.org> wrote: > > My solution was not to use anything other than the main kicad launcher ;). So > I never used standalone pcbnew/eeschema/gerbview/... on OSX. I did figure out > what it would take to fix the kiface detection issue, and started > https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/merge_requests/82 to try to make it so > everything will work from the build directory, but I haven't gotten around to > figuring out the Python pathing yet (that is the one that is most troublesome > for me now that I switched back to a Linux daily driver machine - the kifaces > just work for me now :) ). > > -Ian > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 10:39 AM Jeff Young <j...@rokeby.ie> wrote: >> >> It’s a “thing” on OSX. I run the attached script which fixes things up. >> Sadly it has to be run after each build. >> >> I know Jon has the same issue, but I haven’t heard about it from Ian. >> Perhaps he has a better solution…. >> >> Cheers, >> Jeff. >> >> >> >> On 19 Aug 2020, at 10:32, Jonatan Liljedahl <li...@kymatica.com> wrote: >> >> I now tried deleting the old system-wide /Applications/KiCad, and now >> when clicking the gerbview button in project manager it gives the same >> error about not finding _gerbview.kiface >> >> On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 11:25 AM Jonatan Liljedahl <li...@kymatica.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> Hi! I'm having difficulties launching gerbview from my local build. >> >> I'm opening kicad.app like this, while standing in the build directory >> (/Users/lijon/Coding/kicad/build/master) >> >> open kicad/kicad.app >> >> ...which works fine. However, clicking the gerbview button in the >> project manager launches an old gerbview installed in systemwide >> /Applications/KiCad/ >> >> Trying to open it manually by >> >> open gerbview/gerbview.app >> >> fails with "Failed to load kiface library >> “/Users/lijon/Coding/kicad/build/Contents/PlugIns/_gerbview.kiface” >> and then crashes. >> >> Same with: >> >> ./gerbview/gerbview.app/Contents/MacOS/gerbview >> >> except now it tries to look in >> /Users/lijon/Coding/kicad/build/master/Contents/PlugIns/ >> >> I've also tried to stand in the kicad.app directory and open it from >> there, but with similar results. >> >> Any ideas how to run a locally built gerbview on macOS? >> >> Cheers >> -- >> /Jonatan >> http://kymatica.com >> >> >> >> >> -- >> /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 -- /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
