Why don't you just install it? On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 at 13:04, Jonatan Liljedahl <li...@kymatica.com> 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.mciner...@ieee.org> > 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 <j...@rokeby.ie> 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 <li...@kymatica.com> 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 <li...@kymatica.com> > >> 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 > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > -- > /Jonatan > http://kymatica.com > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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