[GNC] tutorials or examples for connecting/programming for GnuCash data access

[john]

If you mean the gnucash-x.x-setup.exe distributed as part of releases, it's built on Windows in the MSYS2 environment using gcc. You're correct that the Python bindings aren't included. That's also the case for the macOS GnuCash.app and flatpak. The reason is that the bindings must be linked against libpython so we'd have to include a full python instance in the bundle and we think that would add too much bloat to an already large download. Users who want to use the Python bindings will have to build GnuCash themselves; the recipes are published at https://github.com/gnucash/gnucash-on-windows, https://github.com/gnucash/gnucash-on-osx, and https://github.com/gnucash/gnucash-on-flatpak.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Jul 25, 2022, at 9:49 PM, flywire <flywire0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> TLDR: GnuCash Windows version is compiled on linux so, considering the
> note below, you are unlikely to get python bindings working in
> Windows.
> 
> 
>> Important
> 
>> The Python extensions are an optional feature which creates additional dependencies. To be
>> able to use Python scripts, GnuCash must have been built with the cmake -DWITH_PYTHON=ON …
>> option enabled, otherwise all what follows won’t work. At present this option is not
>> enabled by default, so if you need this, you may have to compile GnuCash from source
>> yourself. But some distributions offer it also as a separate package with a name like
>> python[version]-GnuCash
> 
> 
> I'd happily be shown wrong about python bindings being easily
> accessible under Windows.
> 
> 
> Piecash is about the only alternative but iirc the demos are hidden in
> the code repository. Try:
> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2021-July/097124.html
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