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

[chris graves]

> On Jul 1, 2018, at 8:39 PM, Rob Gowin <robg at gowin.net> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jul 1, 2018, 11:25 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>> wrote:
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> > On Jul 1, 2018, at 7:39 PM, chris graves <mohavebaked at gmail.com <mailto:mohavebaked at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> > Also, just curious, what IDE's gnucash developers use on MacOS.  It appears that Xcode is not suitable.
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> 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.
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> The README_CMAKE.txt file (https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/maint/cmake/README_CMAKE.txt <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.)
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> Rob
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Thanks for the comments Rob.  Yeah I figured to just take the path of least resistance.  Long time vi user, so guess we'll stick with that.  Tried emacs once, but couldn't get my fingers to simultaneously press all the needed keys :-(

Made it a bit further in compiling gnucash.  I'm surprised that we are all not working from the same code base as far as the prereq's go.

To get pas the iso-codes issue, I manually downloaded iso-codes-3.67.tar.xz from:
https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/blfs/conglomeration/iso-codes/ <https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/blfs/conglomeration/iso-codes/>

Then ran across an error compiling guile, found a bug and manually applied a patch:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guile/2016-06/msg00252.html <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guile/2016-06/msg00252.html>

Now I'm stuck compiling boost with this error:
*** Configuring boost *** [68/76]
./autogen.sh --prefix /Users/chris/gnucash-stable   
/bin/sh: ./autogen.sh: No such file or directory

Looking at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnucash/gnucash-on-osx/master/modulesets/gnucash.modules <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnucash/gnucash-on-osx/master/modulesets/gnucash.modules> I see:
<!--./b2 toolset=darwin address-model=32 cxxflags="$CPPFLAGS" cflags="$CPPFLAGS" linkflags="$LDFLAGS" dll-path=$PREFIX/lib -\-prefix=$PREFIX -\-build-dir=$PREFIX/../build/boost_1_56_0 install

After which one must run 
for i in `ls $PREFIX/lib/libboost*.dylib`; do install_name_tool -id $i $i; done
for i in `ls $PREFIX/lib/libboost*.dylib`; do for j in `ls $PREFIX/lib/libboost*.dylib`; do install_name_tool -change `basename $i` $i $j; done; done
-->
  <autotools id="boost" supports-non-srcdir-builds="no" skip-install="True">
    <branch module="boost/boost_1_56_0.tar.bz2" repo="sourceforge"
	    version="1.56.0"/>
    <after>
      <dep package="icu"/>
      <dep package="icu55"/>
    </after>
  </autotools>

I guessing one needs to run bootstrap.sh which may generate b2, but if so, not sure which args to provide bootstrap.sh