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[Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

… I just did a quick non-scripting build of a clean head revision (5240).
No problems, pcbnew starts from launcher and standalone… links and bundle structure also are created as it is intended to be.


Regards,
Bernhard

On 30.10.2014, at 20:51, Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You can also check the structure of kicad.app in the bin folder.
> This should be the *only* real app bundle, everything else must be a symbolic link to inside kicad.app.
> 
> The overall kicad.app structure should be like that (from memory…):
> kicad.app/
>   Contents/
>     Applications/
>       eeschema.app/
>         Contents/
>           MacOS/
>             eeschema/
>           Frameworks -> Symlink to kicad.app/Contents/Frameworks
>       pcbnew.app/
>         … similar to eeschema.app …
>       …
>     Frameworks/
>       … all the *.dylib
>     PlugIns/
>       eeschema.kiface
>       pcbnew.kiface
>     SharedSupport
>       … some other stuff …
> 
> 
> At the same directory level as kicad.app pcbnew.app (and others) should be a symlink to “kicad.app/Contents/Applications/pcbnew.app”.
> 
> You could also try to open kicad.app via right-click and “Show Package Contents”, navigate to Contens/Applications folder and start pcbnew from there.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Bernhard
> 
> 
> 
> On 30.10.2014, at 20:31, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> First, I'm going to grab the files from the bin/ directory, and compare them with the ones in the dmg, just to be sure.  Then I'll put the DMG on Dropbox along with the build log.
>> 
>> Adam Wolf
>> Cofounder and Engineer
>> W&L
>> 
>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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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