Yes, exactly this. On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 11:36 PM Jon Evans <j...@craftyjon.com> wrote:
> I won't speak for Jonatan, but installing after a full build on MacOS > takes significant time. In fact, if I'm changing a single file and > recompiling, doing the install probably takes ~10x longer than the > compile. So, for iterating quickly, it's not great. > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 5:22 PM Nick Østergaard <oe.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Why don't you just install it? >> >> On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 at 13:04, Jonatan Liljedahl <li...@kymatica.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
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