Reports again

[Mike Alexander]

--On August 30, 2011 9:03:15 AM +0200 James Wilde 
<james.wilde at sunde-wilde.com> wrote:

> Mike, I'll be glad to try this if you can give me a link to
> instructions and a download since, as you describe it, it sounds as
> though there is a  separate download, which one then opens in an X11
> window.

The GnuCash project doesn't provide a prebuilt X11 version of Gnucash 
(for any OS).  If you want that you have to build it from source or 
install it using a package manager for your OS.  For OSX perhaps the 
easiest way to install it would be to use MacPorts (see 
<http://www.macports.org/>).  I haven't done this for a while, but it 
looks like things are up to date there and it should be fairly easy to 
build and install it.  The tricky part is getting all the prerequisites 
installed and MacPorts handles this for you.  Since MacPorts will build 
everything from source (or almost everything) it will take a while. 
The MacPorts project just added support for installing prebuilt 
binaries, but I don't think many things are available in that form yet.

You also have to get X11 installed, but a usable version comes with 
OSX.  You can install a more recent version using MacPorts or from 
<http://xquartz.macosforge.org/>.

        Mike