Errors compiling Gnucash for Mac OSX

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Sun Jul 4 09:37:23 EDT 2004


Note that "apt-get install gnucash" should actually install gnucash,
and it probably installed the BINARY version...  It would not have
installed any of the build dependencies.

Is there some reason you don't want to use the pre-built version?

-derek

Robyn Phillips <robynphillips at email.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to get Gnucash to work on a Mac for OSX. After a bit of
> research, I have downloaded Fink and Gnucash 1.8.9. I also have developer
> tools and X11 installed.
>
> In the Terminal window, I typed 'sudo apt-get install gnucash' to download
> all of the required libraries. After two attempts, it download over 40Mb of
> library stuff (taking over 3 hours on my dial up connection).
>
> I then started following the instructions in the INSTALL file that came with
> Gnucash. From the Terminal window, I typed './configure' and a bunch of
> stuff appeared on the screen, with these being the last two lines:
>
>     checking for library containing gettext... no
>     configure: error: Cannot find gettext -- do you need to build -lintl?
>  
> According to FinkCommander, I have gettext installed version 0.10.40-17.
>
> Can anyone help me get past this step so that I can continue getting to the
> stage where I can actually use Gnucash? Of course, if someone could tell me
> where a copy of Gnucash ready to go for the Mac is, that would be even
> better!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robyn
>
>
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