Compiling GNU Cash on OS X

Stephen Fisher slfisherf1 at earthlink.net
Fri Oct 31 20:53:25 CST 2003 

You were right. Didn't have developer tools properly installed. I'll  
check out the fink reference. In the mean time did make progress. Got  
developer tools fixed and successfully installed glade dependency.  
Still having problems with guile which not appear to be a fink problem.  
Apparently guppi ties to install a version 1.4 of guile. Errorred as  
follows. Also tried guile separately with same error. Thoughts? Both  
attempts with fink commander from source under OS 10.3 and Panther  
version of Xcode dev tools.

This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

configure:588: checking for a BSD compatible install
configure:641: checking whether build environment is sane
configure:698: checking whether make sets ${MAKE}
configure:737: checking for working aclocal
configure:750: checking for working autoconf
configure:763: checking for working automake
configure:776: checking for working autoheader
configure:789: checking for working makeinfo
configure:803: checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions  
of Makefiles
configure:970: checking for gcc
configure:1083: checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works
configure:1099: gcc -o conftest  -no-cpp-precomp  conftest.c  1>&5
dyld: gcc version mismatch for library: /sw/lib/libiconv.2.dylib  
(compatibility version of user: 5.0.0 greater than library's version:  
3.0.0)
./configure: line 1: 29765 Trace/BPT trap          ${CC-cc} -o  
conftest${ac_exeext} $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext $LIBS  
1>&5
configure: failed program was:

#line 1094 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"

main(){return(0);}



On Oct 31, 2003, at 6:31 PM, Howard Kim wrote:

>   Hello Stephen,
>
>   That is the problem.  You have been installing binaries and died  
> when trying to install from source.  You probably don't have the  
> developer tools installed which includes gcc and other headers that  
> are needed to compile software.  Gnucash is not available as a binary,  
> as well as the many libraries it needs, so it will have to be  
> compiled.
>
>   Fink has specific instruction on how to get Fink working under 10.3.  
>  I suggest checking out http://fink.sourceforge.net/ as there is good  
> information there.
>
>   I was to start over, Iwould do the install in the following order:
>
>   1. Install XCode from CD or download from Apple Developers  
> Connection - http://connect.apple.com/
>   2. Install Apple X11 -  
> http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/x11/download/
>   3. Install Apple X11 for Mac OS X SDK - I believe items 1-3 are on  
> the Panther Developer CD as an optional package
>   4. Install Fink - http://fink.sourceforge.net/
>   5. Install Fink Commander
>
>   Regards,
>   Howard Kim
>
> On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 04:16  PM, Stephen Fisher wrote:
>
>> Howard,
>>
>> Sorry should have been clearer. Other installs were all done using  
>> fink commander and binaries. Running OS 10.3 Panther on Powerbook G4.
>>
>>
>> On Oct 31, 2003, at 4:22 PM, Howard Kim wrote:
>>
>>>   Hello Stephen,
>>>
>>>   Some stupid questions to get some context.  Did you install the  
>>> other items you listed from source or binaries?  What version of OS  
>>> X are you running?  10.2 or 10.3?  Are you using Fink and Fink  
>>> Commander?
>>>
>>>   Regards,
>>>   Howard Kim
>>>
>>> On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 06:23  PM, Stephen Fisher wrote:
>>>
>>>> Probably not the right place for this question but this thread  
>>>> seems to have folks who may be able to answer the question.
>>>> Glade and guile archives are no help. Not even sure of which of the  
>>>> 100 glade mail lists to post to to ask.
>>>>
>>>> New to unix.
>>>> Want to install gnucash.
>>>> Trying to work through dependencies rather than do the  
>>>> fink-wait-a-day process.
>>>> Successfully installed autoconf, automake, gnome and gtk +2 Both  
>>>> glade and guile error out with similar problem.
>>>>
>>>> checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>>>> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
>>>> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... no
>>>> checking for working aclocal... found
>>>> checking for working autoconf... found
>>>> checking for working automake... found
>>>> checking for working autoheader... found
>>>> checking for working makeinfo... found
>>>> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of  
>>>> Makefiles... no
>>>> checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
>>>> checking for gcc... no
>>>> checking for cc... no
>>>> checking for cc... no
>>>> checking for cl... no
>>>> configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
>>>> ### execution of ./configure failed, exit code 1
>>>> Failed: compiling glade-0.6.4-3 failed
>>>>
>>>> Appear to be missing a c compiler.
>>>> Guessing error is pretty basic.
>>>> Guessing has something to do with trying to install from source vs  
>>>> binary.
>>>> Not sure what to do next.
>>>>
>>>> Stephen
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 12, 2003, at 10:27 AM, Paul Fischer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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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