[GNC-dev] Compiling Gnucash on MacOS - not for the faint of heart...

[Rob Gowin]

On Sun, Jul 1, 2018, 11:25 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

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> > On Jul 1, 2018, at 7:39 PM, chris graves <mohavebaked at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Also, just curious, what IDE's gnucash developers use on MacOS.  It
> appears that Xcode is not suitable.
>
> Last question first, bash and emacs. ISTR Mike Alexander uses vim and
> emacs.
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> Cmake *will* generate an Xcode project and I managed to get it to work
> once, but for the most after ~35 years of emacs I just don’t find that
> Xcode offers enough to make the time to switch.
>

The README_CMAKE.txt file (
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/maint/cmake/README_CMAKE.txt)
documents the details about how to use Xcode for GnuCash development (once
all of the dependencies are built.)

Rob