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[Jean-Paul Louis <louijp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Marco,

It looks like the previous problem has been fixed, and I am now able to complete the build.
I just finished to build the BZR4837 without trouble.
I understand what you said about the install. but the cake process is not working right.
During the "make install", a “bin" directory is added to the default install directory.
The apps should be in /Applications/Kicad/, but the "make install” put them in
/Applications/Kicad/bin/. That’s why I said that the install process is broken.
I made cmake use "/Applications/Kicad" by adding the switch
 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$INSTALL_DIR to cmake and I add previously set
INSTALL_DIR to /Applications/Kicad in my script.
So the part of cmake that needs to be fixed is the area where the /bin is added to the install path.
It is ok to have for UNIX, but not for APPLE. Then, at the end,  we need to fix the kicad bundle.
Symbolic links is one way to fix the kiface issue with an Apple bundle. I also understand that
kiface concept is a radical departure from the Apple concept of bundle, but Dick idea of the symlinks
worked nicely when I tested it. I need to consolidate all the experiments that we did into a single document
explaining how to fix the broken process until we can fix the cmake for kicad on OS X.

I am willing to help testing the OS X builds until we can make a package (DMG) for easy distribution.
Then we might get more leverage as OS X users if more people use Kicad on OS X.
A lot of people using Mac OS X are frustrated because they do not find a decent version of Kicad.
So they go use other CAD software like Eagle, GEDA, and many others that are nowhere near the performance
of Kicad.

Jean-Paul


On Apr 28, 2014, at 4:46 PM, Marco Serantoni <marco.serantoni@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> On 28/apr/2014, at 19:25, Jean-Paul Louis <louijp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Jean-Paul,
> You should try bzr 4835, look to ML “OSX - Issue with the last Compiler Update”, as you see is not always simple to keep up the ML.
> I’ve waited you on IRC until 1am Local time, then i’m an Human i need sleeptime too.
> 
> You weren’t supposed to use install as i said to you in the mails you have to just copy the only bundles in place, in the case zip/package them for further distribution.
> I’ve also suggested to you to use cp.
> 
> If you want to shortcut exec from the repository build root:
> mkdir -p /Applications/Kicad
> cp -R ./bitmap2component/bitmap2component.app /Applications/Kicad
> cp -R ./cvpcb/cvpcb.app /Applications/Kicad
> cp -R ./eeschema/eeschema.app /Applications/Kicad
> cp -R ./gerbview/gerbview.app /Applications/Kicad
> cp -R ./kicad/kicad.app /Applications/Kicad
> cp -R ./pagelayout_editor/pl_editor.app /Applications/Kicad
> cp -R ./pcb_calculator/pcb_calculator.app /Applications/Kicad
> cp -R ./pcbnew/pcbnew.app /Applications/Kicad
> 
> Bye,
> —
> Marco
> 
>> Marco,
>> 
>> I have been working on the Mac OS X build for quite a while now, and I was successful in the build.
>> The weak part was the install, as the default install was installing the bundles in /usr/local/bin which is wrong for Apple OS X.
>> So I added a “-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$INSTALL_DIR” in my script with INSTALL_DIR=/Applications/KiCad.
>> The Cmake was still wrong because the bundles were installed in "/Applications/KiCad/bin” instead of “/Applications/KiCad”.
>> Adam Wolf helped me to have the script running as it is described in the file you mentioned in your previous email.
>> I succeeded the first time February 27th, and I posted an email here, so you can find it in the ML archive.
>> On March 13th, you told me to connect on IRC. I went there, and waited for hours without anyone ever talking. I only saw a bunch of users all asleep, maybe that was because of the time difference between USA and Europe.
>> We had several emails between you, Adam and me around from March 21st to March 26th, so I progressed in my build. That is the period when Dick started to help me.
>> 
>> I modified my script to move the files to the right place, and that was not good enough. That’s when Dick helped me a lot to understand what was wrong. I posted all the steps in this mailing list, so you should have been made aware of the issues
>> few weeks ago.
>> 
>> As of today, the OS X build (BZR4830) is broken again.
>>                  ^
>> 174 warnings and 2 errors generated.
>> make[2]: *** [pcbnew/router/CMakeFiles/pnsrouter.dir/pns_router.cpp.o] Error 1
>> make[1]: *** [pcbnew/router/CMakeFiles/pnsrouter.dir/all] Error 2
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>> Mon Apr 28 12:30:08 EDT 2014
>> 
>> Building KiCad for OS X took 0:17:09.
>> 
>> jean-pauls-mbp:Soft_Dev jean-paullouis$ cat ~/Soft_Dev/kicad-build/version.h | grep BZR
>> #define KICAD_BUILD_VERSION "(2014-04-25 BZR 4830)"
>> jean-pauls-mbp:Soft_Dev jean-paullouis$ 
>> 
>> Will you help to fix this?
>> 
>> Jean-Paul
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Apr 28, 2014, at 8:26 AM, Marco Serantoni <marco.serantoni@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> realized
>> 
>