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Re: OSX: opening PCBNew standalone

 

I did run make install, and then copied the files from bin/ into a dmg.
Interestingly enough, EESchema, for example, from the same works fine as
standalone.

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
W&L

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Bernhard Stegmaier <
stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> yes, it should work with all “standalone” apps (at least, it does for me).
> The top-level apps are just links to the real app bundles sitting inside
> the main bundle (kicad.app/Contents/Applications/pcbnew.app).
>
> It is implemented in a way that it loads the kiface-dsos always relative
> to the main bundle, but that seems to fail… the path
> “/Volumes/Contents/PlugIns” doesn’t look right.
>
> This:
> > '/Volumes/Kicad/Kicad/pcbnew.app/Contents/MacOS/pcbnew’
> looks like you tried running pcbnew from the build folder?
> That won’t work.
>
> You *must* do a “make install” and use that binaries/links (also, all the
> bundling/relocatong of libs is only done on the binaries created during
> install)…
>
>
> Regards,
> Bernhard
>
> On 30.10.2014, at 15:04, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > On a current Mac build, are we supposed to be able to open PCBNew.app on
> its own?
> >
> > When I do, I get the following error:
> > The error is: 06:53:16: dlopen(/Volumes/Contents/PlugIns/_pcbnew.kiface,
> 10): image not found
> > 06:53:16: IO_ERROR: Fatal Installation Bug
> > missing file:
> > '/Volumes/Contents/PlugIns/_pcbnew.kiface'
> >
> > argv[0]:
> > '/Volumes/Kicad/Kicad/pcbnew.app/Contents/MacOS/pcbnew'
> > from
> /Users/jenkins/remoteroot/workspace/KiCadMacBuild/kicad/common/kiway.cpp :
> KiFACE() : line 219
> >
> >
> > However, I can open it fine through Kicad.app.  I know these standalone
> app things are relatively new for Kiface OSX builds, so I'm mostly
> wondering if they're supposed to work yet.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Adam Wolf
> > Cofounder and Engineer
> > Wayne and Layne, LLC
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