This afternoon, I finally got around to tackling this problem with the kstars image on the DMG crashing when it takes a photo. As I mentioned before, when I tested it on my wife's non development laptop, I was getting something that said "illegal instruction: 4," which apparently means a command that the processor does not understand. So then I got my old Mac laptop, which I have been cleaning out and getting ready to wipe clean. I ran Jamie's script on that computer and got a nice dmg. Then when I tested the DMG on my wife's computer it did not work, but when running it from the command line, I found a clue as to why. It said it couldn't find some dylib files, specifically libcfitsio.dylib and libnova.dylib. It was looking for libcfitsio.dylib in Frameworks. I looked there and it was missing! Then it was looking for libnova in the executable path (not in frameworks??) and it of course was not there. So then I manually copied those files into the app in the spots it was looking for them and it worked! Then I tried running the Indi server and it did not work, but I played around a little and finally found out that it wanted libnova.dylib and maybe libcfitsio.dylib in the Indi folder. So I copied them in there too. And low and behold, it worked!!!!
I then copied the app to 3 different Macs, and they all could run the simulator telescope, the simulator ccd, and the simulator focuser!!!!! One was Sierra, one was El Capitan, and the 3rd was my wife's El Capitan machine which doesn't have any QT, homebrew, or command line tools installed.
I have not yet tested this with real equipment on a machine that did not compile it, but I am very hopeful! I am attaching a link to the zip file containing the working app. It is not a dmg, since we will have to find out why those files were not copied by Jamie's script and we should figure out why the Sierra build gives an illegal instruction error when running on an El Capitan machine.
Please test this out!!
drive.google.com/file/d/0B_ivMJINsdQ8NTl...N0E/view?usp=sharing
Note that I haven't tested everything yet, such as the download new data, nor have I looked into whether xplanet is running properly, but this is a huge leap forward!