Installing GnuCash 2.0 on Mac OS X
Rudye McGlothlin
Rudye at LiquidOx.com
Mon Sep 4 12:29:03 EDT 2006
Andre,
I am running OS 10.4.7 .
Rudye
Andre Powell wrote:
> I am thinking about doing this later on what OS are you running? I have 10.3.9 curious if i can get version 2.0.x to compile.
>
> Rudye McGlothlin <Rudye at liquidox.com> wrote: Everyone,
>
> After several weeks of brooding over it, and a few intense evenings
> trying everything that I could think of, I have gotten GnuCash 2.0
> compiled on my PowerBook! Everything seems to be working, and I want to
> thank the developers for the phenomenal effort. Thank you!
>
> I started, of course, with these instructions...
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSXInstallation but there were a few
> pieces of info missing or that my limited experience couldn't provide.
> So here is my errata. If you think its worthwhile, I'll make an effort
> to add to the wiki. Let me know if I should.
>
> 1. The first issue I encountered was that the manually downloaded
> g-wrap-1.9.6 couldn't find guile16 that fink installed. The solution is
> further in the instructions. Executing this line:
>
> $ export PATH=/sw/share/guile/1.6/scripts/binoverride:$PATH
>
> before doing the g-wrap ./configure solves it. I recommend that step be
> moved up to before the g-wrap section.
>
> 2. There is no information here about where g-wrap needs to be. Mine
> ended up in /sw/etc . Frankly, I don't know how. It became clear that
> it needs to be in /sw/bin . At least, g-wrap.configure must be in
> /sw/bin . I tried several ways to get g-wrap to compile into that
> directory (--prefix didn't work), but I finally just manually moved all
> the g-wrap files.
>
> 3. GnuCash needed more information about the location of g-wrap/guile.
> I had to change the $PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable to include the
> location of /g-wrap-1.9.6/guile. In my case I did this: export
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/sw/bin/g-wrap-1.9.6/guile:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH .
>
> 4. That took care of getting GnuCash to compile. Note, however, that
> the instructions say that the line:
>
> ./autogen.sh ; ./configure --with-g-wrap-prefix=/sw
> --enable-compile-warnings ; make ; sudo make install
>
> will install in the /usr/local directory. This wasn't the case on my
> computer. GnuCash installed right were it was...
> ~/Documents/src/gnuCash/src/bin/gnucash . I suppose there is someway to
> erase it and force it to compile in the right place, but I don't think
> I'm up to it.
>
> Regards,
> Rudye
>
>
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