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[Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, exactly this.

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 11:36 PM Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I won't speak for Jonatan, but installing after a full build on MacOS
> takes significant time.  In fact, if I'm changing a single file and
> recompiling, doing the install probably takes ~10x longer than the
> compile.  So, for iterating quickly, it's not great.
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 5:22 PM Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> > http://kymatica.com
>> >
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-- 
/Jonatan
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