Ok yes, I think I encountered this too. Sorry, I had tried quite a few things before I finally got this working, so I wouldn't be surprised if I forgot I did something. I just looked through my Terminal history and I found the following:

brew unlink cfitsio
brew link libcfitsio

Which tells me i must have installed libscfitsio and the cfitsio must not have been good enough to make it work just as you encountered. I assume before you run the above lines, you would need to do this:

brew install libcfitsio

but I don't see that in my history so I may have done it previously. Hopefully this helps!!

Another thing I should have mentioned is that there are a bunch of data files that KStars will need to access. They are in the kstars git that you downloaded. You need to copy them to this Directory I believe: ~/Library/Application Support/kstars

So I mentioned before that I only ran the simulators "remotely" using the cloud makers indi server program. But just now I got the simulators working locally. I had to make sure that all the xml files for the drivers were in /usr/share/indi and that in the preferences the indiserver and driver folders are entered correctly. That fixed it for me. Next I plan to test running Ekos on my mac controlling my system remotely using the raspberry pi. I might also try to do it locally by plugging them directly into my laptop but I'm not sure that will work too well. I think I will probably have more luck with running the cloud makers indi server program on my mac and connecting to it "remotely."

Adam, if my solution above does not work to help you build libindi with cfitsio since it is out of date, this is the info that I followed that is located in the git with instructions for building on OS X. you can copy all four of these to the same level as your indi source code folder.

To use it, you need the following folders on the same level as indi-code:

libnova-0.15.0 <= downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libnov...ibnova-0.15.0.tar.gz
libusb-1.0.19 <= sourceforge.net/projects/libusb/files/la...ownload?source=files
cfit3380 <= heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/fitsio/c/cfitsio3380.tar.gz
gsl-2.1 <= gnu.prunk.si/gsl/gsl-2.1.tar.gz (run configure and make to create header files)

To build SBIG driver you need SBIGUDrv.framework (SDK available from SBIG web).
To build QSI driver you need libftd2xx.a library (part D2XX driver available from FTDIChip web).

To use it without CloudMakers closed-source drivers remove dependency on the following drivers

indi-atik
indi-shoestring
indi-usbfocus

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I just got done testing Ekos on OS X with real devices. The test with the Raspberry Pi serving up indi devices and using the OS X kstars to control it worked flawlessly. For connecting the devices locally, I had some problems because apparently I had not built the 3rd party drivers, so it didn't work with all of my equipment. It took me a few minutes to get the drivers I needed in the correct directories, but then it worked.

I just got gsc working on my os x version of kstars. I had to follow the list of steps at the bottom of this page:

www.indilib.org/support/tutorials/139-in...on-raspberry-pi.html

I had a couple of problems. First, it needed both of the regions files in a subfolder called bin inside the final gsc folder. Second, I had to copy all the folders that began with N and S to the final gsc folder (but NOT in the bin subfolder). Third, I had trouble getting the environment variable permanent, so I made the gsc folder /gsc instead of ~/gsc and this worked just fine.

still working on the icons and the Add-On Installer. As Adam pointed out before, these were the same things that gave me trouble earlier this summer when I was working with a different Linux operating system. I will still try to solve them, but not tonight.

Sorry for the late reply Seems you made quite a lot of progress last night (at least it was night for me).
brew install cfitsio solved the cfitsio error, but now it doesn't find libnova and I am sure it won't find the other two packages too . Maybe the folder where I place the additional folders is wrong? I place them in the Projects folder, where also indi and build are located. However, moving them inside the indi folder doesn't help either.
I noticed that there is a homebrew version of libindi from Peter:
brew tap polakovic/astronomy
brew install polakovic/astronomy/libindi \
polakovic/astronomy/indi-qhy
I will maybe try that later.

But on macOS 10.12 there seems to be a problem with qt5 as well. It won't compile when doing brew install qt5, which is quite severe as it is needed for all the KDE stuff.
Unfortunately, I don't have a machine with 10.11 now, so I guess I will have to wait for a fix for the Qt issue.

I did make a bit of progress! I think the folders for building libindi need to be up one more level. Here is a screenshot for you:

That sucks about qt5, I cannot install sierra on my computer because it is too "old." Maybe it is a blessing in disguise until they get it fixed.

Thanks for the screenshot, I placed them one level below indeed. It still doesn't find the libraries however. Did you change the cmake command somehow?
I digged out an older Mac with El Capitan now, so I will try it on that one too.

I did not actually change the cmake files, but if you tried to build and it failed, you should delete everything in the build folder. I found there are problems if you try to do it again.