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https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-guide/ch_python_bindings.html

> Starting with GnuCash version 2.4 you can write Python scripts to
> manipulate your financial data.



 Important
> The Python extensions are an optional feature which creates additional
> dependencies. To be able to use Python scripts, GnuCash must have been
> built with the cmake -DWITH_PYTHON=ON … option enabled, otherwise all what
> follows won’t work. At present this option is not enabled by default, so if
> you need this, you may have to compile GnuCash from source yourself. But
> some distributions offer it also as a separate package with a name like
> python[version]-GnuCash

There are GnuCash Windows users who want to use the Python bindings which
hasn't really been possible since you removed them from the distribution.
Most users just want access to the binaries and don't care how they are
created though some (including myself) would like to build them if
the process was reasonable. (A GitHub workflow would be terrific.)

Regards

On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 at 14:00, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> Have you considered setting up a Linux build environment instead? You can
> install your distro of choice in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (aka WSL).
> Many of them have a package manager target similar to Debian/Ubuntu’s `apt
> build-dep gnucash` that sets up everything you need except a code editor.
> It’s much less frustrating than the MinGW64 environment.
>
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