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Re: KiCad crash when clicking on Help then any of the two bottom sub-menus

 

That fixes this for me, and it even opens the manual also. This is on Linux.

2014-04-14 20:51 GMT+02:00 Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 04/12/2014 01:19 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
>> On 04/11/2014 08:40 PM, Jean-Paul Louis wrote:
>>> As the Subject says,
>>> When I open KiCad, then click on “Help", then on “KiCad Manual” or “Getting started with LiCad”, it crashes.
>>> The “Copy Version Information" sub-menu is OK, and shown below.
>>>
>>> Application: kicad
>>> Version: (2014-04-11 BZR 4798)-product Release build
>>> wxWidgets: Version 3.0.0 (debug,wchar_t,compiler with C++ ABI 1002,GCC 4.2.1,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
>>> Platform: Mac OS X (Darwin 13.1.0 x86_64), 64 bit, Little endian, wxMac
>>> Boost version: 1.54.0
>>>          USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
>>>          USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
>>>          KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
>>>          KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
>>>          KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
>>>          USE_FP_LIB_TABLE=HARD_CODED_ON
>>>          BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
>>>
>>> I also attach the file that contains what was on the Mac screen right after the crash.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This is with the last build, but also happens with previous builds that I tried (like 4778).
>>> my Mac OS X is still a crude build, as I do not have yet all the docs loaded (not sure why)
>>>
>>> Only KiCad crashes. The other programs pop a screen telling me that I miss the manual files.
>>>
>>> I hope someone can tell me what is wrong with my build.
>>> I am open to try anything that can help to have a piper build on Mac OS X.
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm looking at this and see it is *not* OSX specific.  I am duplicating it on linux and
>> expect it to be same on Windows.
>>
>> I have some of it ironed out already.  Should have it fully resolved soon.
>>
>> Thanks for what is a good bug report.
>>
>> Dick
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> Ok, maybe rev 4801 will fix this.
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