Compiling KiCad for macos High Sierra

xanthefin · February 14, 2021, 3:53pm

Hi i am looking too this kicad on high sierra. Thanks much in advance. I can be in return sometimes seeding.

My DaveCAD version is too low me to handle it well enough.

Tiberiu_Vicol · February 14, 2021, 4:11pm

My torrent is running since yesterday.

xanthefin · February 14, 2021, 4:27pm

Hmm… i have then some problems as it can’t find any seeders. Sorry i will try take a look.

Tiberiu_Vicol · February 14, 2021, 4:55pm

This tracker is announcing my seed and I prefer encrypted peers.
udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80/announce
You may ad it manually.

xanthefin · February 14, 2021, 5:48pm

Absolutely nothing at the moment sorry. I give up for now. Maybe operator has done some changes after some time. Thank you for your time and being active. I appreciate it.

Edit: I got partly. Wierdly loads over torrent. Maybe tomorrow can finish.

bson · February 15, 2021, 1:29am

use --with-ngshared
Don’t use --with-x or --with-readline since you need neither X Windows or readline since the latter isn’t used by the shared library:

$ ./configure --with-ngshared

Also, I did a quick test build off the ngspice github repo, and it ran into problems with bison. This is because ngspice uses yacc but the configure script doesn’t correctly set up the path for bison -y; e.g.:

: //zorkmid ~/src/ngspice/release ; fgrep bison ./src/maths/cmaths/Makefile
	$(top_srcdir)/m4/ax_prog_bison_version.m4 \
BISON = /usr/local/opt/bison/bin/bison
YACC = bison -y
: //zorkmid ~/src/ngspice/release ; find . -name Makefile | xargs fgrep -l YACC  | wc -l
     135

As you can see it find and sets the path to the brew-installed bison correctly, but the yacc alias fails as it relies on the PATH. Unfortunately, with 135 broken makefiles it’s a little hard to just tweak manually (although a script could do it). I can build it by explicitly setting the path:

$ PATH=/usr/local/opt/bison/bin:$PATH make -j10

But this is a pain for an automated build script to get right.

After building the ngspice shared object you need to make sure the kicad build script uses the one you just built, not sure how automatic that is or if it needs to be installed somewhere (possibly with a build-local prefix).

malnagel · February 16, 2021, 3:42am

ThankYou Tiberiu! I think I got it! Very Much Appreciated!
All the Best! Markus

Tiberiu_Vicol · February 24, 2021, 6:36pm

KiCad is getting better and better.
Here is nightly I just tested and I love what I see

xanthefin · February 25, 2021, 4:06am

As tried make new project it still did on this one complain missing sym files.

xanthefin · February 25, 2021, 4:10am

This nightly one seems to works! Thanks!

John_Munro · February 26, 2021, 3:42pm

KiCad is getting better and better.
Here is nightly I just tested and I love what I see

Dropbox

Tiberiu Vicol sent you 1 item

kicad-unified-20210224-165821-7bfc5f067c.dmg

Hi Is this image for 10.13.6? I’m on 10.13.6 but I keep getting an OS version error.

Tiberiu_Vicol · February 26, 2021, 4:12pm

Yes. 10.13.6 - 64bit

Omar_Alkassab · March 22, 2021, 11:13am

Dear firends, I can’t download any of the links provided before (nor torrents nor dropbox links).
Can you provide me a valid active link?
I need a compatible version for macOS High Sierra 10.13.6

Tiberiu_Vicol · March 22, 2021, 3:02pm

Please open your torrent now.

https://forum.kicad.info/uploads/short-url/9b5hhKdtSpLxj8qvXzM3JFKy5GU.torrent

Omar_Alkassab · March 22, 2021, 3:40pm

Many thanks, it’s downloading now. It is the same for 10.13.6 right?

Tiberiu_Vicol · March 22, 2021, 3:54pm

Yes, will work on High Sierra.

Omar_Alkassab · March 22, 2021, 9:14pm

It worked perfectly friend, many thanks!

Tiberiu_Vicol · April 28, 2021, 4:58am

KiCad 5.1.10 tag was created, therefore here is compiled for any intel mac starting with OSX 10.11

kicad-unified-5.1.10-10.11.dmg.torrent (25.1 KB)

MD5 (kicad-unified-5.1.10-10.11.dmg) = d120eb0623f3486c2c8ffbbec57980db

Application: KiCad
Version: (5.1.10-10.11), release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
libcurl/7.54.0 LibreSSL/2.0.20 zlib/1.2.11 nghttp2/1.24.0
Platform: macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.6 (Build 17G14042), 64 bit, Little endian, wxMac
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,STL containers,compatible with 2.8)
Boost: 1.75.0
OpenCASCADE Technology: 7.5.1
Curl: 7.54.0
Compiler: Clang 10.0.1 with C++ ABI 1002

Build settings:
USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=ON
USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCE=OFF
KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
KICAD_SPICE=ON

Tiberiu_Vicol · May 1, 2021, 4:40am

Here is latest 5.99 compiled for 10.11 and up. It is a folder image, only applications, not unified. Open dmg file, test the applications to see if they work for you and after that drop them in Applications folder.
This was a very clean compile using information from this page https://dev-docs.kicad.org/en/build/macos/

No Python support, but I’m working/learning on how to do this.
kicad-5.99-29.04.2021.dmg.torrent (29.7 KB)

Enjoy !

system · July 30, 2021, 4:40am

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