Compiling GNU Cash on OS X

[Paul Fischer]

Hi all,

I want to thank John Reynolds and Nicolas Scheffer for helping me get  
GnuCash compiled and installed on OSX. I want to point out that the  
compile and install is not as simple as launch fink commander, select  
unstable packages, and click gnucash to install.

Many of the packages GnuCash relies on don't install properly from the  
unstable feed. To anyone else who tries this, I strongly suggest  
following the above instructions to see what packages GnuCash wants to  
install and writing them down or pasting them into a text window. Then  
cancel the install, go back to stable packages only, and install as  
many of the packages from the stable list as possible. Then repeat the  
directions above.

I had to drop back to stable packages several times to get dev  
libraries and other packages to install at all. Also, read the error  
messages very carefully. At some point, I needed to manually run ranlib  
on a library that was out of date, but if I hadn't read the error  
messages in fink commander carefully I would have never seen it.

Again, my thanks to all of you for a great product. Getting it running  
on OS X saved me re-entering 2 years of data in Quicken. I try to avoid  
using Quicken when possible, but my linux machine died, and I haven't  
had time to get it working again. GnuCash on OS X is a much better  
solution for me.


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