launchpad makes it hard for new users

[bergstar]

For developers and hardcore open-source users this is not a big issue, but for beginners creating account on service which most people has no use for, then hasle with keys also feals quite meaningless.

Maybe there is a way to skip all this hassle?.. or provide ready-to-use bin's

[bergstar]

I have clean install of 10.9 OS X, followed instruction to the point, first got this error:

clang: error: unknown argument: '-mno-fused-madd' [-Wunused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future] clang: note: this will be a hard error (cannot be downgraded to a warning) in the future error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

build error on BUILD WXPYTHON PYTHON EXTENSIONS STEP: 4

fixed it using cd /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/ sudo rm _sysconfigdata.pyo _sysconfigdata.pyc

got it working a bit, then got this error:

./build.sh: line 392: cmake: command not found make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.

build error on BUILD KICAD STEP: 5

and no idea on how to fix it...

again it feels quite unnecessary to have to compile this from scratch, especially on osx...

[iwoloschin]

The KiCAD source code is in a state of flux, and this build script has not been updated in a few months. If you'd like to maintain it, then it would "just work" but it seems no one has time to maintain it at the moment. As far as ready-built binaries, well, no one has time to packages those for OS X either. Most of the KiCAD developers use Linux, not OS X, so they tend to not support OS X as well.

Check out some of the other recent issues. We've posted a few alternative solutions that seem to work, though it does require some "manual" compiling, but it's all relatively simple, especially if you've gotten as far as you already have.