Great work OSX developers and packagers! It looks like we are finally getting close to providing regular OSX bundles. Many thanks to all who made this possible.
Wayne On 10/30/2014 10:01 AM, Adam Wolf wrote: > Hi folks, > > Things are progressing very well on the OS X packaging front! > > Every time bzr is updated for lp:kicad, a Mac build is generated, and > every night, a clean build is generated and packaged as a dmg. Miguel > is working on fixing my SSH credentials on the server, so I can push the > build logs and dmgs. > > I've done my best to script a dmg creator that matches what end-users > expect from downloaded Mac applications. I think it is very good at > this point. > > You can see an image of what it looks like inside one of these dmgs, > attached to this email. > > The build log is included with every package, and also will be uploaded > next to every package, so that you don't have to download the entire > package to see a build log. > > The package is currently around 200 megs. > > The README is dynamically generated at package time. A sample one > follows. Please let me know if you have any additions or suggestions: > > KiCad > ===== > KiCad is an EDA software suite for the creation of professional schematics > and printed circuit boards up to 32 copper layers. KiCad runs on Windows, > Linux and OS X and is released under the open-source GNU GPL v2 free of > charge. > > With KiCad you can create schematic diagrams and printed circuit board up to > 32 copper layers. KiCad comes with a rich set of libraries with 3D models as > well. > > KiCad is a mature EDA software tool under active development by a team of > developers and a vibrant user group. KiCad team counts three main developers > and a dozen of regular contributors. > > Documentation > ============= > Documentation is available in this disk image under docs/, and is available > online at http://www.kicad-pcb.org/. > > Changelog > ========= > You can browse the changelog at > https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kicad-product-committers/kicad/product/changes. > > Reporting Issues > ================ > The KiCad developers are working hard to provide quality, binary releases to > our users. As of September 2014, the OS X package is under heavy, active > development. > > If you encounter issues with this software, please report a bug at > https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad. > > To help us, please include the details from "About This Build" in this file > or the name of the download file (kicad-r*.dmg). Please also include the > output from running the following command in the Terminal: > > sw_vers > > > About This Build > ================ > KiCad revision: r5237 > Packaged on 20143010-034759 > Packaging script revision: r20 > Build script revision: r20 > CMake Settings: -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=/usr/bin/clang > -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=/usr/bin/clang++ > -DwxWidgets_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE=../wx-bin/bin/wx-config -DKICAD_SCRIPTING=OFF > -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=OFF -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=OFF > -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../bin -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release > > > QA/Testing: > At the moment, I have set up another OS X machine running a freshly > installed 10.10. I haven't installed anything else, and I am testing > the Kicad packages on there, and then once I have tested them, I am > reverting the system back to the state as it was "freshly installed." > This is not ideal at all, but every day these packages aren't available > is another day I spend 20 minutes replying to people asking me where Mac > builds are :) > > What's Left: > > * Automated uploads to the website. I poked Miguel about this recently, > and he says he'll try to get to it today. > > * The current Mac build appears to have some dependencies beyond what we > include in the bundle. For example, on a freshly installed 10.10 system > with this bundle, I cannot open pcbnew. I verified this myself. A > tester reported to me that he was able to fix it by installing brew, > libpng, libpixman, and libfontconfig. I have not verified that fix yet. > > The error is: 06:53:16: dlopen(/Volumes/Contents/PlugIns/_pcbnew.kiface, > 10): image not found > 06:53:16: IO_ERROR: Fatal Installation Bug > missing file: > '/Volumes/Contents/PlugIns/_pcbnew.kiface' > > argv[0]: > '/Volumes/Kicad/Kicad/pcbnew.app/Contents/MacOS/pcbnew' > from > /Users/jenkins/remoteroot/workspace/KiCadMacBuild/kicad/common/kiway.cpp > : KiFACE() : line 219 > It appears that it is looking for Contents/PlugIns/_pcbnew.kiface at the > wrong place, and I am not sure why installing those libraries would fix > that problem. I am going to pull this out into its own email so > discussion of this doesn't get merged with other nightly build questions. > > * Including libraries? Not sure about this one. > > What has been done: > > * We redid our build cluster in a way that we could let in other people, > and not see the rest of the Wayne and Layne internal projects. I hope > to get some more people in the packaging group, and this was a crucial > first step. > > * We have an OS X machine for building, and an OS X machine for testing, > and can restore it to the "freshly installed" state very easily. > > Thanks, > > Adam Wolf > Cofounder and Engineer > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
