[GNC] Suggested source for LibOFX?

[Bennie]

John - thanks to your guidance.  I think I'm on the right track. I 
assume the ONLINE ACTIONS/GET TRANSACTIONS was actually grayed out as I 
had not yet set up a userid/account.  Working on that now.

On 1/7/2020 4:59 PM, John Ralls wrote:
> Bennie,
>
> Thanks, I've removed that part and modernized the rest of the intro a bit.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>> On Jan 7, 2020, at 1:36 PM, Bennie <benniegibson56 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> John - one other point of information to highlight how I would up where I am.  Looking at the URL: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Setting_up_OFXDirectConnect
>>
>> I find the below - based on reading the below, I still come away thinking I need to --enable-hbci.  Based on your input, I'll trying installing AQBanking, start GNUCash the usual way and see what happens.
>>
>> Thanks again for the input
>>
>> AqBanking
>>
>> GnuCash now uses AqBanking as a means to handle connections to financial institutions. GnuCash must be configured using --enable-hbci and --enable-ofx in order for OFXDirectConnect to be available. Note: --enable-hbci is really two things at once. It means --enable-aqbanking and --enable-hbci. Although there isn't an --enable-aqbanking per se. But you need AqBanking for DirectConnect, which is why you need to --enable-hbci.
>>
>> AqBanking has its own setup wizard for the purpose of setting up account identification and user login ID for your online connections. This page is intended to document how to use this wizard to enable you to download data directly from your bank or credit card company into the appropriate GnuCash register.
>>
>> You must have Libofx 0.8.2 or higher and AqBanking 2.0.0 or higher to user OFXDirectConnect in Gnucash
>>
>> On 1/7/2020 12:42 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>>> What you read is clearly obsolete because `--enable-hbci` is for the autotools build system that we don't use anymore. We now use cmake and AQBanking is enabled by default if AQBanking is found.
>>>
>>> Have you built GnuCash yourself from source?
>>>
>>> Have you checked with
>>> https://ofxhome.com
>>>   to make sure that your banks even support OFX DirectConnect? Be sure to check the verification at the bottom, about 1/3 of the banks in there no longer support it.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Jan 7, 2020, at 9:29 AM, Bennie <benniegibson56 at gmail.com>
>>>>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi John,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to get direct downloads working from my bank/credit card companies.  In reading the info about GNUCash, I read that I need to --enable-hbci which further indicated I need libofx and AQBanking.  I'm researching sources as I found multiple repositories with libofx in it when I google libofx.
>>>>
>>>> On 1/7/2020 10:49 AM, John Ralls wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> On Jan 7, 2020, at 8:43 AM, Bennie <benniegibson56 at gmail.com>
>>>>>>   wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> John - thanks for the response.  I was looking for libOFX as I thought it was listed as a prerequisite (along with AQBanking) for direct connection to bank accounts.  Did I miss something on the pre-reqs?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 1/7/2020 10:42 AM, John Ralls wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Jan 6, 2020, at 9:33 AM, Bennie Gibson <benniegibson56 at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>   wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>      I'm a new GNUCash user and would like to get OFXDirect working.  Wondering where most folks get LibOFX.  SourceForge seems the most "official" looking but want to feel more comfortable about the source of this library.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> libofx doesn't support OFX DirectConnect. We use AQBanking for that.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That aside, Benoit isn't using SourceForge any more, he's moved the project to Github:
>>>>>>> https://github.com/libofx/libofx
>>>>> It's a prerequisite for importing OFX files and unlike AQBanking it's not optional.
>>>>>
>>>>> What exactly do you want to do? Studying sources isn't normal user activity.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> John Ralls
>>>>>
>>>>>