Mac OS GnuCash.app after custom MacPorts build?

[John Ralls]

> On Feb 3, 2015, at 4:13 PM, Jan Steinman <Jan at ecoreality.org> wrote:
> 
> I have been struggling with including MySQL and Quartz support in GnuCash. <gripe>Why can't MySQL support be included in the Mac OS X binary download?</gripe>
> 
> I successfully used MacPorts to build and install gnucash with libdbi. It opens in an an X-term, and allows MySQL to be selected.
> 
> I then followed the wiki instructions (http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSX/Quartz#Building_Libdbi_Drivers) to delete the X11 version and re-build for Quartz. I can now successfully run gnucash from a Terminal window rather than an X-term, and it lists MySQL as one of the "save" options. Whew!
> 
> However, I'm having some difficulty understanding the making of a bundle (http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSX/Quartz#Making_a_Bundle), specifically, where it says "Look through gnucash.launcher and gnucash.bundle and adjust the paths to match your installation."
> 
> I was sorta hoping those files would have something like:
> 
> #
> # Change the following to the full path where gnucash resides:
> #
> bundle_root = '/opt/local/bin'
> 
> or something similar. Instead, I feel like I'm in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.
> 
> Can anyone who's successfully navigated building GnuCash.app help me with the process a bit?
> 
> Thanks!

It’s a pretty simple XML file, but you probably don’t need to change much if you all of the dependencies are built with MacPorts: Just do    
  PREFIX=/opt/local gtk-mac-bundler /path/to/gnucash.bundle

If you built 32-bit libraries, though, you might be able to just copy libdbdmysql.so to Resources/lib/dbd in your existing bundle. Another user managed to do that a couple of months ago.

Regards,
John Ralls