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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My archiver is resolving the symlinks.  Thanks folks!

Adam Wolf

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> … 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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