> On Apr 21, 2023, at 3:17 AM, monson <holymon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> The pure python client `piecash` seems obsoleted and no longer worked with
> latest sqlalchemy and gnucash, so I'm trying to switch to original python
> bindings. Since they aren't shipped in the pre-built bundle, I tried to build
> those bindings but it seems have to build the whole gnucash and doesn't work
> well.
> On Linux (e.g. archlinux) those python bindings are shipped with the gnucash
> package. May I ask if we can do the same on macOS? Thanks.
Unfortunately there's no good way to do that. The Python bindings need to be
linked with libpython3 and Apple only provides one in recent versions of
Xcode--Xcode itself, mind, not the SDK--with a decidedly quirky framework
layout. Supporting that across 5 versions of macOS isn't practical. Worse,
since it's not in the SDK it can't be linked from another bundle: Apple's
notarization doesn't allow linking anything outside the bundle that's not in
either /usr/lib or /System/Library/Frameworks. With that latter rule the only
way to include the python bindings in GnuCash app is to include a full build of
Python in the bundle and you'd have to use the Python executable in the bundle
with the scripts. That's a lot of extra baggage for the few users who want it.
If building GnuCash with gtk-osx is too hard consider MacPorts instead.
Homebrew just "bottles" GnuCash.app so it's not an alternative.
Regards,
John Ralls
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