Missing glib/gobject when compiling

[John Ralls]

> On Nov 6, 2017, at 6:27 PM, Edward Bridges <ebridges at eqbridges.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Nov 6, 2017, at 08:40 PM, Edward Bridges wrote:
>> 
>> On Sun, Nov 5, 2017, at 10:39 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Nov 5, 2017, at 6:07 PM, Edward Bridges <ebridges at eqbridges.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I've built libdbdpgsql.so using jhbuild build libdbi-drivers, then run:
>>>> 
>>>> cp gnucash-stable/lib/dbd/libdbdpgsql.so \
>>>>   /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/lib/dbd
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> install_name_tool -change gnucash-stable/lib/libdbi.1.dylib \
>>>>   /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libdbi.1.dylib \
>>>>   /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/lib/dbd/libdbdpgsql.so
>>>> 
>>>> I'm assuming that, then, when I start up Gnucash (v2.6.15) I would have
>>>> the
>>>> option to "Save As..." to a Postgresql database option under "Data
>>>> Format"
>>>> but it's not appearing, and am not seeing any logs under Console.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for your quick response earlier.  Am I missing a step somewhere
>>>> here?
>>> 
>>> I think you also need the pgsql client dylib in the bundle and it would
>>> be better to use @executable_path/../Resources/lib/libdbi.1.dylib rather
>>> than /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents as that will allow you to move
>>> the bundle.
>>> 
>>> Use `otool -L
>>> /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/lib/dbd/libdbdpgsql.so` to
>>> make sure that your install_name_tool invocation did what you want. I’m
>>> suspicious of the relative path in your install_name_tool invocation.
>>> 
>>> Console doesn’t catch stderr anymore and hasn’t since Lion (10.7). You
>>> can check the trace file (`sudo find /var/private/Temp -name
>>> gnucash.trace` to get the path) but link errors might not get into there
>>> either, so best to run GnuCash from a Terminal session:
>>> /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash
>>> so the stderr output goes where you can see it.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>> 
>> Hi John --
>> 
>> Thanks for your help on this.  
>> 
>> When I run according to your instructions I get a brief error message
>> that libdbi is unable to load the driver -- and it still is not working
>> (see below).  I could not find a gnucash.trace file under /var as well.
>> 
>> ```
>> ~ $ /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash
>> Application Path /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash-bin
>> 
>> (process:4934): gnc.gui-WARNING **: [mac_set_languages()] Language list:
>> en:en_US:C
>> (null)
>> libdbi: Failed to load driver:
>> /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/lib/dbd/libdbdpgsql.so
>> ^C
>> 
>> ~ $ otool -L
>> /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/lib/dbd/libdbdpgsql.so
>> /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/lib/dbd/libdbdpgsql.so:
>> 	/Users/gnucash/gnucash-stable/lib/libpq.5.dylib (compatibility
>> 	version 5.0.0, current version 5.9.0)
>> 	/Users/gnucash/gnucash-stable/lib/libdbi.1.dylib (compatibility
>> 	version 3.0.0, current version 3.0.0)
>> 	/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current
>> 	version 1252.0.0)
>> ```
>> 
>> Cheers, 
>> Ed
> 
> Just noticed that `otool` is reporting that `libdbdpgsql.so` under 
> /Applications/Guncash.app is depending on `libdbi` and `libpq` 
> that live under the `gnucash` user home directory (i.e. that were built
> along with libdbdpgsql.
> 
> That may explain the failure to load the shared library (as the user I
> ran
> Gnucash as does not have access to the gnucash user home directory).
> 
> However, I tried running it as root as well, and still get the same
> error
> message.

What does `file /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/lib/dbd/libdbdpgsql.so` return?

Regards,
John Ralls