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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Have you seen this documentation?

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kicad-product-committers/kicad/product/view/head:/Documentation/compiling/mac-osx.txt

Seems pretty easy to me. Note I am not on OSX.

2014-07-21 7:13 GMT+02:00 Jake <jake@xxxxxxxx>:
> i downloaded a zip of a build for macOS containing KiCad 2014-05-31 BZR
> 4902-product (called "Kicad-product-2014-05-31.zip")
>
> I can't remember where I downloaded it though, and the official kicad page
> at http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/KICAD/Download leads to source (very
> difficult to build on macos) or packages that are quite old.
>
> so on to my problems.  Installing libraries was very difficult because the
> "sed" command on bsd does not support extended regex (the -r parameter) and
> sed is used by library-repos-install.sh to create a list of libraries to
> download.
>
> perhaps macOS after 10.6.7 has a version of sed that allows for -r extended
> regex?  If not, the command
> sed  's:.+ "KiCad/(.+)",:\1:'
> should be replaced with
> sed 's:..................KiCad/::' | sed 's:\",::'
> in library-repos-install.sh
>
> this is to change
>     "full_name": "KiCad/Air_Coils_SML_NEOSID.pretty",
> into
> Air_Coils_SML_NEOSID.pretty
>
> the other problem i'm having is basically this:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/593661
>
> except that it's not that the Cvpcb window "loses" focus but rather it isn't
> fully focused.  The close/minimize/maximize buttons in the corner are still
> colored (indicating it has focus) but the arrow keys don't work and none of
> the fields are highlighted with active blue;  and thus the arrow keys don't
> work.  I can't describe how impossible it is to pick parts without using the
> arrow keys to pick through footprints with Cvpcb.
>
> If i close the footprint viewer, Cvpcb acts normally and the arrow keys work
> to cycle through parts.
>
> if anyone is building for macOS / OSX they should check for this bug and fix
> it or reopen it in the bug tracker if they see it, it's pretty serious.
>
> also, i really don't know what is the correct way to install kicad libraries
> and I haven't found the instructions in the documentation - or they were
> buried in too much other documentation and i couldn't see it.
> I pity the fool who tries to install kicad on anything but linux until the
> documentation is improved.
>
> thank you
> -jake
>
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