Hi, Alexander Sotirov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I successfully built GnuCash 2.2.2 and a minimal set of dependencies on > Mac OS X without the use of Fink or MacPorts. The only build requirement > is to have the Apple XCode tools. It should be possible to package the > output of the build and run it on any OS X system as long as the user has > X11 installed. If you're going through all this trouble, why not try to build the gtk-macosx[1] project instead and get an application that runs without X11? > The detailed instructions, build script and patches are at > http://a.sotirov.net/2008/building-gnucash-on-mac-osx/ Cool! How hard would it be to take this script and then build an installer? > You are welcome to put them on the wiki if you think it would be useful. > Here's > the short version: > > curl -O http://a.sotirov.net/code/gnucash-osx/gnucash-osx-20080107.tar.gz > tar xfvz gnucash-osx-20080107.tar.gz > cd gnucash-osx-20080107 > ./download.sh > ./build.sh > > If the build is successful, GnuCash will be installed in /Applications/GnuCash > and can be started by running /Applications/GnuCash/bin/gnucash > > The current build does not have printing, OFX, HBCI or quote support because > I don't use them and I tried to keep the dependencies to a minimul. Adding > these should not be too hard. > > The build process hardcodes the install path in all libraries and the GnuCash > binary will not work if the directory is moved. This is probably the biggest > obstacle to turning this into a binary OS X distribution. Suggestions on how > to deal with this are welcome. GnuCash has BinReloc support -- you could try to enable that? Also, is this binary a fat binary? Or does it build specifically for either PPC or Intel but not both? > Another issue is that the /Applications/GnuCash directory contains a lot > of files installed by the other packages we built that are not needed for > GnuCash. It would be good to figure out exactly what is needed and delete > the rest, because right now the directory is about 200MB (a lot of that > are the locale files for GnuCash and the rest of the Gnome libraries). > > I would really like to see a binary distribution for OSX, and hope that > this is useful as a first step towards this goal. It is indeed! Thank you. > Take care, > Alex -derek [1] http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
