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[Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I see! But isn't gerbview always run standalone? Running pcbnew and
eeschema from the main kicad project manager works fine from the build
directory, as long as you don't open a pcb or schematic which are not
named the same as the project - then it will launch a standalone
instance.

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 12:14 PM Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> My solution was not to use anything other than the main kicad launcher ;). So I never used standalone pcbnew/eeschema/gerbview/... on OSX. I did figure out what it would take to fix the kiface detection issue, and started https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/merge_requests/82 to try to make it so everything will work from the build directory, but I haven't gotten around to figuring out the Python pathing yet (that is the one that is most troublesome for me now that I switched back to a Linux daily driver machine - the kifaces just work for me now :) ).
>
> -Ian
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 10:39 AM Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> It’s a “thing” on OSX.  I run the attached script which fixes things up.  Sadly it has to be run after each build.
>>
>> I know Jon has the same issue, but I haven’t heard about it from Ian.  Perhaps he has a better solution….
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jeff.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 19 Aug 2020, at 10:32, Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I now tried deleting the old system-wide /Applications/KiCad, and now
>> when clicking the gerbview button in project manager it gives the same
>> error about not finding _gerbview.kiface
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 11:25 AM Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi! I'm having difficulties launching gerbview from my local build.
>>
>> I'm opening kicad.app like this, while standing in the build directory
>> (/Users/lijon/Coding/kicad/build/master)
>>
>>    open kicad/kicad.app
>>
>> ...which works fine. However, clicking the gerbview button in the
>> project manager launches an old gerbview installed in systemwide
>> /Applications/KiCad/
>>
>> Trying to open it manually by
>>
>>    open gerbview/gerbview.app
>>
>> fails with "Failed to load kiface library
>> “/Users/lijon/Coding/kicad/build/Contents/PlugIns/_gerbview.kiface”
>> and then crashes.
>>
>> Same with:
>>
>>    ./gerbview/gerbview.app/Contents/MacOS/gerbview
>>
>> except now it tries to look in
>> /Users/lijon/Coding/kicad/build/master/Contents/PlugIns/
>>
>> I've also tried to stand in the kicad.app directory and open it from
>> there, but with similar results.
>>
>> Any ideas how to run a locally built gerbview on macOS?
>>
>> Cheers
>> --
>> /Jonatan
>> http://kymatica.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> /Jonatan
>> http://kymatica.com
>>
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