Ron Forrester wrote:
> 
> Well, configure'ing goes much better these days, esp now that its
> looking for guile 1.3.
> 
> However, building for gnome is still pretty impossible for a newbie.
> There were a couple of errors in the makefile, (src/gnome/Makefile)
> where the macro $(shell --cflags) and $(shell --libs) should have had a
> 'gtk-config' after the shell.
> 

Yes, should actually be gnome-config.

> Once this is fixed, the code in src/gnome tries to compile, but soon
> runs into trouble. Mostly in that there is no 'main.h', so for this I
> substituted 'top-level.h'. I then had to add an #include MenuCommands.h
> to a couple of files, and uncomment the declarations for 'app' and
> gnucash_shutdown(). Then the link failed because I don't have XmHTML
> installed. So I grabbed the one off the ftp site, unarchived it, and
> simply typed 'make'. It builds and then tries to make the library, but
> error's out complaining that I don't have libhttp. So, I type 'make
> http', and it errors with the following:

If you are just compiling the gnome version than remove -lXmHTML from
the src/gnome/Makefile
 
> 
> Am I dreaming that if I could get XmHTML built that gnome gnucash would
> link and run? Should I continue trying or will there be an update to the
> source sometime soon to fix most of this?
>

Hopefully, I have the main.h problems fixed I just need to make a patch
to send to Linas.  The Gnome version should compile now once you fix
those few things.  Although don't expect it to run perfect.  Lots of
code was commented out to get things to compile.
 
-- 
Jeremy Collins
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