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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Why don't you just install it?

On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 at 13:04, Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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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> --
> /Jonatan
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