[GNC-dev] Building on mac os.

[John Ralls]

> On Aug 20, 2021, at 1:38 PM, Jean L <ripngo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Devs,
> 
> I'm trying to refresh the GC build environment on my mac, but I'm running into lots of errors so I want to make sure I'm doing the right things.
> Here are my steps:
> curl -O -L https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk-osx/raw/master/gtk-osx-setup.sh
> 
> curl -O -L https://github.com/gnucash/gnucash-on-osx/raw/master/jhbuildrc-custom
> 
> sh gtk-osx-setup.sh
> 
> jhbuild bootstrap
> 
> jhbuild bootstrap-gtk-osx
> 
> jhbuild build
> 
> These are the steps I used the last time I setup my build environment. I'm not 100% sure these are the same as what's described in
> 
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOS/Quartz so I'm asking here to see whether I need to start from scratch and run the procedure described in that link.

Jean,

Don't run `jhbuild bootstrap`, start with `jhbuild bootstrap-gtk-osx`. I imagine that's the source of your errors.

If you didn't delete ~/.config/jhbuildrc-custom from last spring then you didn't need to download it again.

One other change that hasn't made it into the gnucash-on-osx jhbuild-custom yet: Replace 'python3' with 'pygments' in each of the _modules lines.

Regards,
John Ralls