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

[chris graves]

> On Jul 2, 2018, at 5:38 PM, Rob Gowin <robg at gowin.net> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 7:22 PM, chris graves <mohavebaked at gmail.com <mailto:mohavebaked at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> On Jul 1, 2018, at 8:39 PM, Rob Gowin <robg at gowin.net <mailto: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 :-(
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> If you're going to stick with vi, why were you asking about IDEs? :-)

If someone came out and said XYX is the most awesome tool for hacking gnucash, I'd be up for it, but since no one has...
As they say, do as the natives do!

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> <!--./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
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> 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>
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> I guessing one needs to run bootstrap.sh which may generate b2, but if so, not sure which args to provide bootstrap.sh
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> No arguments needed,  as per  https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSX/Quartz <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSX/Quartz>
I know, it's always RTFM -- thanks.
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> -- Rob
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