Missing glib/gobject when compiling

[Edward Bridges]

Ah-ah.  I read that section a bit closer now.  So, after running jhbuild
build libdbi-drivers I would simply copy the resulting libdbdpgsql.so to
Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/lib/dbd and run install_name_tool?
Thanks!

On Sun, Nov 5, 2017, at 11:22 AM, John Ralls wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Nov 5, 2017, at 4:36 AM, Edward Bridges
>> <ebridges at eqbridges.com> wrote:>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Thanks a lot for an awesome accounting product!  It's been very
>> helpful>> for my family's personal finance!
>> 
>> The gap I've found is that reporting isn't as flexible as I
>> would like.>> To address this I'm hoping to PostgreSQL as the backend to make
>> querying>> a bit easier.  However, I'm on MacOS and need to compile it
>> locally in>> order to do this.
>> 
>> I've followed these instructions to do this:
>> 
>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSX/Quartz
>> 
>> All went smoothly until I hit `jhbuild build` and got an error about>> missing either the "glib" and/or "gobject" packages.
>> 
>> Wouldn't these be installed by `jhbuild bootstrap`?
>> 
>> I'm on Sierra (10.12.6 (16G29))
>> 
>> ```
>> checking for pkg-config... /Users/gnucash/gnucash-stable/bin/pkg-
>> config>> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.16... yes
>> checking for GLIB - version >= 2.31.2... Package glib-2.0 was
>> not found>> in the pkg-config search path.
>> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `glib-2.0.pc'
>> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
>> No package 'glib-2.0' found
>> Package gobject-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
>> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gobject-2.0.pc'
>> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
>> No package 'gobject-2.0' found
>> no
>> *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
>> *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file
>> config.log>> for the
>> *** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly>> installed.
>> configure: error:
>> *** GLIB 2.31.2 or better is required. The latest version of
>> *** GLIB is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/. If GLIB is
>> installed
>> *** but not in the same location as pkg-config add the
>> location of the>> file
>> *** glib-2.0.pc to the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
>> *** Error during phase configure of atk: ########## Error running
>> ./configure --prefix /Users/gnucash/gnucash-stable
>> *** [29/71]
> No, glib is about halfway through the third meta-module, meta-gtk-osx
> (bootstrap and meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap being the first two). The
> command “jhbuild build” should build all of GnuCash’s dependencies in
> the right order.> 
> However since you only need to build the pgsql libdbi driver you
> should be able to skip to> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSX/Quartz#Building_Libdbi_Drivers
> libdbi-drivers doesn’t depend on anything Gnome, it only needs the dpi
> and pgsql client headers and dylibs.> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls