GnuCash OSX

[Charles Day]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:56 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
> On Jun 11, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>>
>> I noticed that you've done a lot of work on a semi-standalone GnuCash
>> application for OSX.  Could you perhaps come over to gnucash-devel or the
>> #gnucash irc channel so we can talk about setting up an OSX Build Server?
>>  I'd like to work with you to integrate your osx work into the GnuCash
>> source tree and then we can start to produce daily builds!
>>
>> Of course, we'd need to try to solve the gconf/glade/guile hardcoded-path
>> issue somehow..
>>
>> Are you interested??
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -derek
>>
>
> Hello.
>
> I'm flattered, and interested. It didn't even occur to me that you guys
> would be interested in making GnuCash portable to OSX.
>
> (For those who don't know, I've been publishing at
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSX/Quartz instructions for building
> GnuCash as a native app on OSX, using Richard Hult's gtk-osx-build project.
> I've recently taken that over, too, along with some related stuff and
> consolidated it at gtk-osx.sourceforge.net -- which is down at the moment,
> but you can get to the project page at
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtk-osx/)
>
> I'm presently have 3 patches to gnucash itself:
> - Remove AC_CHECK_HEADERS of X11/Xlib.h
> - Modify the gnucash.in batch file template to set up the environment
> correctly
> and start Dbus
> - Incorporate the gnucash menus into the Mac menubar.
>
> Only one of them (the last) is ready to go, but the other two only need to
> be guarded so that they work only when building against gtk-quartz.
>
> I have written but not yet tested a patch to binreloc.c which should allow
> binreloc to work correctly with a mac application bundle. I've looked at
> dbus, and I see that its hardcoded path (to the machine-id file) can be
> easily fixed up to look in the bundle as well.
>
> Are there more hard-coded paths that I don't yet know about?
>
> Derek, you mention daily builds. Do you have a mac available in your build
> farm?
>
> Hmm, the other thing that you should be aware of is that the gtk-osx-build
> setup doesn't at present do universal binaries. Dunno if that matters.
>

One other outstanding issue is that, to my knowledge, AqBanking isn't
available when compiling for quartz since the AqBanking GUI requires qt3,
which requires X11. I don't know how hard it would be to build AqBanking
using quartz versions of Qt instead (qt3-mac or qt4-mac on MacPorts).


> Regards,
> John Ralls


-Charles