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 >
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