Installing GnuCash 2.0 on Mac OS X

[Rudye McGlothlin]

Andre,
I am running OS 10.4.7 .

Rudye


Andre Powell wrote:
> I am thinking about doing this later on what OS are you running? I have 10.3.9 curious if i can get version 2.0.x to compile.
>
> Rudye McGlothlin <Rudye at liquidox.com> wrote: Everyone,
>
> After several weeks of brooding over it, and a few intense evenings 
> trying everything that I could think of, I have gotten GnuCash 2.0 
> compiled on my PowerBook!  Everything seems to be working, and I want to 
> thank the developers for the phenomenal effort.  Thank you!
>
> I started, of course, with these instructions... 
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSXInstallation but there were a few 
> pieces of info missing or that my limited experience couldn't provide.  
> So here is my errata.  If you think its worthwhile, I'll make an effort 
> to add to the wiki.  Let me know if I should.
>
> 1.  The first issue I encountered was that the manually downloaded 
> g-wrap-1.9.6 couldn't find guile16 that fink installed.  The solution is 
> further in the instructions.  Executing this line:
>
> $ export PATH=/sw/share/guile/1.6/scripts/binoverride:$PATH
>
> before doing the g-wrap ./configure solves it.  I recommend that step be 
> moved up to before the g-wrap section.
>
> 2.  There is no information here about where g-wrap needs to be.  Mine 
> ended up in /sw/etc .  Frankly, I don't know how.  It became clear that 
> it needs to be in /sw/bin .  At least, g-wrap.configure must be in 
> /sw/bin .  I tried several ways to get g-wrap to compile into that 
> directory (--prefix didn't work), but I finally just manually moved all 
> the g-wrap files.
>
> 3.  GnuCash needed more information about the location of g-wrap/guile.  
> I had to change the $PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable to include the 
> location of /g-wrap-1.9.6/guile.  In my case I did this: export 
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/sw/bin/g-wrap-1.9.6/guile:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH .
>
> 4.  That took care of getting GnuCash to compile.  Note, however, that 
> the instructions say that the line:
>
> ./autogen.sh ; ./configure --with-g-wrap-prefix=/sw 
> --enable-compile-warnings ; make ; sudo make install
>
> will install in the /usr/local directory.  This wasn't the case on my 
> computer.  GnuCash installed right were it was... 
> ~/Documents/src/gnuCash/src/bin/gnucash .  I suppose there is someway to 
> erase it and force it to compile in the right place, but I don't think 
> I'm up to it.
>
> Regards,
> Rudye
>
>
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