Pcbnew always crash on MacOs 10.8.5

Hi Folks,

I just installed Kicad, the last stable version, but PCBnew always crashed.

I have a mavbook air, OS X 10.8.5, intel 1.8Ghz, icore 5, here you can find the log of the crash :

16:14:13: dlopen(/Applications/Kicad/kicad.app/Contents/PlugIns/_pcbnew.kiface, 10): Symbol not found: ___sincos_stret
Referenced from: /Applications/Kicad/kicad.app/Contents/Applications/pcbnew.app/Contents/MacOS/…/Frameworks/libcairo.2.dylib
Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
in /Applications/Kicad/kicad.app/Contents/Applications/pcbnew.app/Contents/MacOS/…/Frameworks/libcairo.2.dylib
16:14:13: IO_ERROR: Fatal Installation Bug. File:
‘/Applications/Kicad/kicad.app/Contents/PlugIns/_pcbnew.kiface’
could not be loaded
Perhaps a wxWidgets shared (.dll or .so) file is missing.
From command line: argv[0]:
‘/Applications/Kicad/kicad.app/Contents/Applications/pcbnew.app/Contents/MacOS/pcbnew’

from /Users/jenkins/remoteroot/workspace/KiCadBuildMac4/kicad/common/kiway.cpp : KiFACE() : line 225

AND :

16:14:13: dlopen(/Applications/Kicad/kicad.app/Contents/PlugIns/_pcbnew.kiface, 10): Symbol not found: ___sincos_stret
Referenced from: /Applications/Kicad/kicad.app/Contents/Applications/pcbnew.app/Contents/MacOS/…/Frameworks/libcairo.2.dylib
Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
in /Applications/Kicad/kicad.app/Contents/Applications/pcbnew.app/Contents/MacOS/…/Frameworks/libcairo.2.dylib
16:14:13: IO_ERROR: Fatal Installation Bug. File:
‘/Applications/Kicad/kicad.app/Contents/PlugIns/_pcbnew.kiface’
could not be loaded
Perhaps a wxWidgets shared (.dll or .so) file is missing.
From command line: argv[0]:
‘/Applications/Kicad/kicad.app/Contents/Applications/pcbnew.app/Contents/MacOS/pcbnew’

from /Users/jenkins/remoteroot/workspace/KiCadBuildMac4/kicad/common/kiway.cpp : KiFACE() : line 225

What can i do ? :smile:

Thanks !!

I reported this bug @ launchpad:


but it seems it is not still solved/handled…
you may consider to add your prob to that bug list…

I found a way to solve the issue building from source as


http://www.eevblog.com/forum/open-source-kicad-geda/noobies-of-the-noobe-trying-to-run-kicad-in-osx/
http://www.eevblog.com/forum/open-source-kicad-geda/noobies-of-the-noobe-trying-to-run-kicad-in-osx/msg781049/#msg781049

but this is not what I would have had as solution…
I would prefer to have the official stable build to work on my OSX… :slight_smile: