Compiling KiCad for macos High Sierra

Just started my torrent app. You may try now.

Just wondering why we cannot get this build hosted on the main servers

can reupload the file? please i try to compile with mach sierra 10.13.6 but nothing… please reupload the dmg file! the torren dont download

Please try now. I’ll keep torrent app open for a while.

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torrent program is open but dont start download, i leave the mac all the night… is maybe possible to upload the file on google drive or mega upload, thanks for the help i tryed many time to compile it but noting… nikoe help me to compile but dont work or if you can give me the exact command you used to compile.

Well, our maintainer gave up. 10.12 is past EOL so we don’t support it. 10.13 is EOL on November 30th at which we also say we don’t support it in short order. The maintainer was struggling to juggle Apple’s continued blockage of building for older systems while he himself works on newer ones. It wasn’t worth his limited time when he has the newer Apple created disasters to wrangle.

Unforunately, it’s not its safe to trust that build given by a third party, and I’m not saying they did anything wrong at all. But it wouldn’t be appropriate to host a package officially that wasn’t built by us.

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Torrent file for it
kicad-unified-5.1.7-10.13.dmg.torrent (25.3 KB)

great all work thankyou very much Tiberiu_Vicol

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You are welcome, glad to help !

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5.1.8 for 10.13 and up

MD5 kicad-unified-20201110-174527-09f8efa9c.dmg = 1bdbe19ed15c200ea537afb7f9545fd4

This should work starting with 10.11

MD5 = 31b973b95d4ffbe9e3b75df27877fb59

Tiberiu Is it possible for you to send a new link?

5.1.8 is working fine for me, so I have removed 5.1.7 from my computer. Please try 5.1.8, above links are working.
To compile again 5.1.7 will take me around 8hours and 25GB. :grimacing:

Ah, does this mean the source tree is expected to build on 10.14 now?

Nightly and 5.1.9 compiled for High Sierra on MacBook 7.1 (13-inch, Mid 2010)

kicad-unified-5.1.9-10.13.dmg.torrent (25.2 KB)
MD5 (kicad-unified-5.1.9-10.13.dmg) = 525d326f238e1ebad624ca3052546c3a

kicad-unified-20201225-123026-b998574a77.dmg.torrent (25.5 KB)
MD5 (kicad-unified-20201225-123026-b998574a77.dmg) = c60597e9bfb1f65dace3345f57610960

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Thank you so much for this. Please could you run your Torrent app so I can start the download? I’ll leave mine running in case anyone else needs this file…

Now downloaded - thanks again!

You are welcome ! Enjoy !

Thanks for making complied KiCad versions for High Sierra available; I’m successfully using your 5.1.7 version and am considering installing the 5.1.9 version. I’m quite happily running an old mid-2010 MacBook Pro with upgraded memory / new SSD but High Sierra is the end of the line for me as far as Apple OSX updates go. I’m thinking of installing Linux (dual boot?) but I’ve held back as some software packages I use are not available in Linux. Long way of saying that I really appreciate having KiCad updates compiled for High Sierra!