Thank you for your reply, John.
So for debugging the PCB editor, would it be okay to understand that I can just run make pcbnew in the build folder, set up the environment variables, and then debug it as a standalone application? 2025년 6월 9일 월요일 오후 9시 59분 29초 UTC+9에 [email protected]님이 작성: > Hi Anthony, > > In general, build.py is only used for initial setup of the required > dependencies, and in CI to automatically build the whole installation > image. Developers usually don't need to build the whole image to just test > a part of KiCad. > > When you touch a file, running make for the target in question should just > rebuild that target, not a full rebuild. It sounds like something is off > with your make command if that is triggering a full rebuild, but I haven't > seen that before. > > There is no need to re-make the kicad.app bundle just for testing changes > to pcbnew. You can run the PCB editor standalone by setting the right > environment variables (e.g. KICAD_RUN_FROM_BUILD_DIR). > > I also recommend using Ninja instead of make as described at > https://dev-docs.kicad.org/en/build/macos/index.html but this should not > be related to your described problem. > > -Jon > > On Mon, Jun 9, 2025, 04:33 Anthony Park <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm new to C++ projects and spending a lot of time on builds. I have a >> question about incremental builds on Mac. >> >> When I modify a single file in pcbnew and want to apply only that change, >> what command should I run? >> >> Currently I'm facing these issues: >> >> - Running build.py from kicad-mac-builder doesn't seem to apply my >> changes >> - Running make kicad in the build folder starts a full rebuild from >> scratch, taking over an hour >> >> I'm trying to work around this by: >> >> 1. Running make pcbnew and make install directly in >> build/src/kicad-build/ >> 2. Re-bundling pcbnew.app >> 3. Re-integrating it into the main kicad.app bundle >> >> Is this the right workflow for incremental development, or is there a >> better approach for faster iteration when making small changes to pcbnew? >> >> Any guidance would be greatly appreciated, as the long build times are >> really slowing down my development process. >> >> Thanks in advance! >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "KiCad Developers" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/4d6cd16a-5373-40e0-a07a-e3a31676b7ben%40kicad.org >> >> <https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/4d6cd16a-5373-40e0-a07a-e3a31676b7ben%40kicad.org?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "KiCad Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/5477a18b-1ef3-4ec5-8b5d-534c3bfa8b33n%40kicad.org.
