Thanks John. Then I'm thinking to pack a no-gui gnucash (a.k.a. python bindings and libgnucash) on conda-forge. This could drop massive dependencies and work on multi platforms. I have successfully build one, but it fails to import due to macOS's rpath mechanism and I'm not quit familiar with it. I wonder if developers would like to maintain a conda package for python?
Regards, monson john <jra...@ceridwen.us> 于2023年4月22日周六 00:20写道： > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
