i need access to the gnucash source code and a recommendation of a good IDE

[Jeff Warnica]

http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows seems to have what (little) Windows
specific development documentation there is. It doesn't mention any specific
IDE. I really have no idea, but I would guess that most Gnuchash developers
are using something which might be what comes to mind when one thinks "IDE".
That is, something like Emacs which is a really really fancy text editor,
but doesn't do continuous builds, or procedure/method completion and inline
documentation one gets with Java and Eclipse, say.

You aren't going to get much help unless you help yourself. I'd try to see
what happens, trying to compile using http://www.mingw.org/. Or trying to
setup a cygwin environment, and compiling with that (though, that might not
count as being Windows...) IDE wise, there is no silver bullet. Get
something better then notepad plus a command box. Jedit is reasonable.
Eclipse with CDT might be worth trying. CDT does have those fancy 21st
century IDE features, but (I havent tried with Gnucash), for C/C++ stuff
they do tend to require a very specific coding approach, Gnucash sources
perhaps being too complicated for the fancyness to work.

Most of the documentation for the source is in the source, I would guess.
Extending the source is easy: get a text editor, and extend it. If you have
some specific question, I'm sure you will get help. But helping you with
setting up a development environment really isn't any Gnucash devs job.


On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 10:36 AM, adekoya adekunle <adekunleadekoya at gmail.com
> wrote:

> i would want to know of specific documentation that could help a
> developer that intends to extend the source code.
>
> i mean if i could get a link to download a documentation  that does
> proper explanation of the source code and how to extend.
>
>
> i would be glad that my questions are each and specifically treated so
> i could minimize iterations in resolving the issues of source code
> edits.
>
> thanks
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:21 PM, adekoya adekunle
> <adekunleadekoya at gmail.com> wrote:
> > i have just downloaded something from :
> > http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/gnucash-2.2.9.tar.bz2
> >
> > i want to know if that link contains a valid source for windows platform
> ?
> >
> > i also want to know how to load the source code in any of the free
> > open source IDE.
> >
> >
> > i also have qt on my machine. can i use qt as my IDE ?
> >
> >
> > i also want to know the file name that contains the entry-point
> > function for the gnucash sofware ?
> >
> > knowing the entry-point function would help me in doing proper trace
> > of the application execution path.
> >
> > please help on those specific questions.
> >
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > 'kunle
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 15:01 +0200, adekoya adekunle wrote:
> >>> hello,
> >>>
> >>> i have tried using gnucash in the last few  weeks.
> >>>
> >>> we plan to be able to make a few customizations/extensions to gnucash
> >>> to fit our purpose.
> >>>
> >>> i want you guys to show me where i can download the source code for
> >>> gnucash( to be run on Ms Windows  XP) .
> >>>
> >>> i also want you to show me where i can get a free IDE with compiler
> >>> for compiling and executing the source.
> >>>
> >>> i hope to start making some customizations to the source code in the
> >>> next few weeks.
> >>>
> >>> before then, i want to study the source and do some experimentation
> >>> with source edits.
> >>>
> >>> any help ?
> >>>
> >>> thanks
> >>>
> >>> 'kunle
> >>
> >> hello,
> >>
> >> Have you looked at the main website[1]??
> >>
> >> [1]
> >>> http://www.gnucash.org/
> >>
> >> regards,
> >> Ankur
> >>
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> >>
> >
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