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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In my build of 5236, after doing make install and running from the
installed location, I can start PCBNew from Kicad.app but not from
PCBNew.app.

Does this tell us anything about what went wrong?

Adam Wolf

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Yes.
> All the dependency relocation stuff is done in the install step.
>
> You can run kicad launcher directly from build folder… it will use the
> hardcoded path to *your* dependencies. So it will run on your machine but
> not on other ones. Also, from within the launcher pcbnew, etc. will work.
> The standalone binaries won’t run from build directory, because they won’t
> find the kiface dso’s… the load paths are hardcoded relative to the final
> main kicad.app bundle structure… which isn’t in place for the build folder
> of pcbnew, eeschema, etc.
>
>
> Regards,
> Bernhard
>
> On 30.10.2014, at 18:42, Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> >> On Oct 30, 2014, at 8:15 AM, Bernhard Stegmaier <
> stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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)…
> >>
> >
> > Slight swerve here, but ... I didn't realize that one needed to do a
> "make install" after doing the main make on the kicad tree. So the "make
> install" step is what bundles all of the static libraries properly? And
> when you use the dmg-generator, it takes the results of the make install
> step, right?
> >
> > -a
> >
> >
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