Missing glib/gobject when compiling

[John Ralls]

Yup, that should work. Reply if it doesn’t.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Nov 5, 2017, at 1:09 PM, Edward Bridges <ebridges at eqbridges.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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