kicad @7.0.11: crashes when run

[Gamespeople]

Catalina 10.15.7

Installed fine:

--->  Verifying checksums for kicad
--->  Extracting kicad
--->  Applying patches to kicad
--->  Configuring kicad
--->  Building kicad
--->  Staging kicad into destroot
--->  Installing kicad @7.0.11_0
--->  Activating kicad @7.0.11_0
--->  Cleaning kicad
--->  Updating database of binaries
--->  Scanning binaries for linking errors
--->  No broken files found.
--->  No broken ports found.

however when trying to launch KiCad 7.0.11 it crashes when I try to do anything past the opening screen.

Is this a Ports problem or a KiCad issue.

I've attached the Apple error report.
Thanks!

[Gamespeople]

Apple report on crash

[Gamespeople]

Normal open for new file - can't open any function without crashing...

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Hmm. The crash log says:

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   org.kicad.kicad               	0x0000000101fe548b KIWAY::Player(FRAME_T, bool, wxTopLevelWindow*) + 219
1   org.kicad.kicad               	0x0000000101e8b5cc KICAD_MANAGER_CONTROL::ShowPlayer(TOOL_EVENT const&) + 428
2   org.kicad.kicad               	0x000000010207d3e1 COROUTINE<int, TOOL_EVENT const&>::callerStub(long) + 49

I'm not sure why. I clicked around in the interface a bit and could not make it crash on macOS 12.

The mention of wx in the backtrace reminds me that we already know that we are not conforming to kicad's requirements by using it with a standard copy of wxWidgets. kicad wants us to use their fork of wxWidgets instead. I had kinda expected to need to switch to that for the update to kicad 8 anyway. It seems like a lot of work to need to build it separately so I was going to investigate if there is a preferred way to build kicad and their fork of wxWidgets and any other custom dependencies all at once in the kicad port.

[Gamespeople]

Well, the point of using macports was to enable kicad 7.0.11 to be able to run in macOS 10.15.x, as kicad does run in macOS 12 natively. Appreciate your looking into this! Thanks!