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[Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can you put the build somewhere?
I would like to try it… maybe I can see something being wrong?


Regards,
Bernhard

On 30.10.2014, at 20:16, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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