Gnucash vs. QuickBooks

[Ariel]

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Quoting Ariel <asgnucash at dsgml.com>:

>> Maybe you could compile gnucash with STATIC libraries (to avoid all the 
>> issues with the wrong ones), and provide it for mac users.
>
> Um, unfortunately GnuCash doesn't build statically.. It depends on
> dynamic libraries.

Oh, I didn't know that.

> But building from MacPorts is easy.  If you really care, find a Mac 
> Developer to spearhead a standalone Mac Binary.  But the fact remains 
> that right now GnuCash depends on GTK which depends on X11, which must 
> be running before you can run GnuCash..  So.... Having a working 
> standalone Mac binary is still a ways off.

I don't actually use the mac version, I use debian. I was reading all the 
issues people were having, and I thought it might help, I didn't realize 
it wasn't possible.

 	-Ariel