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Overview
GnuCash can be built to run more or less natively on OSX -- meaning without X11. Better yet, the build is almost automatic.
To pull this off, you'll need Developer Tools installed. The instructions which follow assume that you're comfortable building programs from the command line and editing text files.
I've succeeded in building this under various incarnations of Leopard while perfecting the modulesets, always on a Mac Pro... but it ought to work on any Mac running Tiger or Leopard.
The default configuration builds in your home folder. On my system, I build in /usr/local/src/gnome and install to /usr/local/gtk. If you want to do that, uncomment the checkoutroot and prefix lines in .jhbuildrc-custom, then create the folders up front and give yourself ownership. If you don't know how to do that, then you should probably leave it the way it is.
Preliminaries
Go to http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx/build-instructions and follow the instructions. Don't run jhbuild build yet!
If you have set $MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET to something other than your running version of OSX, you may get an error during jhbuld bootstrap.
You may get an error about $PREFIX/inst/man/man1/cjpeg.1 not existing. What this really means is that install wasn't set to make the directory, so select '[4] start shell" and mkdir -p $PREFIX/inst/man/man1, quit the shell, and select '[1] rerun stage install'.
Paste the code from #Customize jhbuildrc into a file named ".jhbuildrc-custom" in your home folder. Do likewise for #Gnucash Moduleset, with a filename "gnucash.modules".
Building
Once all of the preliminaries are complete, do: $> jhbuild build
You'll get a few errors:
libgnomeprint has a defective configure.ac which fails when libm isn't found. I've filed a bug report (Bug 540837) with a patch, but a similar bug report (Bug 471730) has been sitting for a year, so there's no telling when the developers will get around to fixing this (and libgnomeprint is deprecated anyway). Here's the patch:
--- configure.in 2008-07-03 14:18:44.000000000 -0700 +++ configure.in.mod 2008-07-03 14:17:11.000000000 -0700 @@ -148,9 +148,17 @@ dnl Checking for libm dnl ================================= AC_CHECK_LIBM -if test "x$LIBM" = "x"; then - AC_MSG_ERROR(You need -lm(mathematic library) for this version of libgnomeprint.) -fi +case $host in +*-*-beos* | *-*-cygwin* | *-*-pw32* | *-*-darwin*) + # These system don't have libm, or don't need it + ;; +*) + if test "x$LIBM" = "x"; then + AC_MSG_ERROR(You need -lm(mathematic library) for this version of +libgnomeprint.) + fi + ;; +esac LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS $LIBM" dnl =================================
Select '[4] start shell', apply the patch (you probably will need to use patch -l) , quit the shell, and select "[6] go to stage configure"
goffice will complain about a misconfiguration of gtk-doc. It doesn't matter, so select "[2] ignore error".
libgnomeui Another configure.in bug (Bug 535958). The patch:
Index: configure.in =================================================================== --- configure.in (revision 5608) +++ configure.in (working copy) @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ gnome_keyring_requirement="gnome-keyring-1 >= gnome_keyring_required_version" GNOME_KEYRING="gnome-keyring-1" - if test x$GNOME_HAVE_X11 != xyes ; then + if test x$have_x != xdisabled && test x$GNOME_HAVE_X11 != xyes ; then AC_MSG_ERROR([libX11 not found]) fi ;;
Select "[4] start shell", apply the patch, quit the shell, and select "[1] rerun configure"
slib will fail because it wants to install to /usr/local, and you'd have to be building with root authority for that to work. We don't want to install there anyway, so select "[4] start shell" and: $> mkdir $PREFIX/lib/slib $> cp *.scm $PREFIX/lib/slib/ $> cp guile.init $PREFIX/lib/slib $> cd $PREFIX/share/guile/1.6/ $> ln -s ../../../lib/slib . $> $PREFIX/bin/guile guile> (use-modules (ice-9 slib)) guile> (require 'new-catalog) guile> (quit) Quit the shell and select "[2] ignore error and continue to done".
You'll have to stop the build (control-c will do it) after the gnucash tarball unpacks to apply the following patch. Make sure to do it before configure finishes! Select "[4] start shell", apply the patch, exit the shell, and select "[1]" rerun configure.
Here's the patch:
--- configure 2008-05-31 16:07:04.000000000 -0700 +++ configure 2008-04-27 03:21:24.000000000 -0700 @@ -23798,7 +23798,7 @@ # These are unavailable on windows/mingw32 -for ac_header in X11/Xlib.h glob.h +for ac_header in glob.h do as_ac_Header=`echo "ac_cv_header_$ac_header" | $as_tr_sh` if { as_var=$as_ac_Header; eval "test \"\${$as_var+set}\" = set"; }; then
Running from the commandline
There's a few more things to fix before we can run GnuCash. GnuCash uses dbus to find its configuration data. First we need to fix up dbus's config file. Open $PREFIX/etc/dbus-1/session.conf in your editor. Quite near the top you'll see a line that looks something like
<listen>unix:tmpdir=/var/folders/8Z/8ZMrxptP2RW3+U+8ZNMZY++++TI/-Tmp-/</listen>
That's a perfectly valid temp directory... but dbus itself can't handle those +s, so change the spec to unix:tmpdir=$PREFIX/tmp
and save the file.
- Run $PREFIX/bin/dbus-uuidgen --ensure=$PREFIX/var/lib/dbus/machine-id
- Rename
$PREFIX/lib/libjpeg.dylib, $PREFIX/lib/libtiff.dylib
, and$PREFIX/lib/libpng.dylib
to something else (I use names like$PREFIX/lib/libjpeg.dylib.hidden
).
- Replace
$PREFIX/bin/gnucash
with the code from #GnuCash Start Script (commandline).
Now you're ready to try it out: $> $PREFIX/bin/gnucash
Making a Bundle
So far so good, but you don't really want to have to open a Terminal window every time you want to use GnuCash, now do you? Of course not. You want a nice icon in your Applications folder (and maybe in the Dock) to click on when you run GnuCash. Here's how to do this:
- Install the bundler from http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx/creating-app-bundles.
- I like to create a subfolder called gnucash-bundler and keep everything in there, but you don't have to.
- Paste the contents of #GnuCash Bundle Description into a file called "gnucash.bundle", #Gnucash Info.Plist into "Info.Plist", and #Gnucash Start Script (Bundler) into "gnucash-launcher", all in the same folder.
- Look through both files and adjust the paths to match your installation.
- make gnucash-launcher executable (chmod +x gnucash-launcher)
- execute jhbuild shell to set up the environment for the bundler
- while in the shell, execute ige-mac-bundler gnucash.bundle.
And your bundle should be ready to go. Try GnuCash.app/Contents/MacOSX/GnuCash from the command-line so that you can see any error messages. If that works, try open GnuCash.app. If that works, then you can move GnuCash.app to your Applications folder and it's ready to use.
Files
Customize jhbuildrc
Paste this into .jhbuildrc-custom in your home folder:
# -*- mode: python -*- #You can override the build and install directories by uncommenting #and editing the next two lines. Be sure to create these directories #and change their ownership to you before you try to build! #checkoutroot = '/usr/local/src/gnome' #prefix = '/usr/local/gtk' autogenargs='--disable-static --enable-shared --disable-gtk-doc --disable-docs --disable-scrollkeeper --disable-xlib' module_autogenargs={} module_autogenargs["gconf"]="--enable-static --enable-shared --disable-scrollkeeper --disable-xlib" module_autogenargs["libofx"]="--with-opensp-includes=" + prefix + "/include/OpenSP --with-opensp-libs=" + prefix + "/lib" module_autogenargs["libgnomeui"]="--disable-static --enable-shared --disable-scrollkeeper --disable-xlib --without-x" module_makeargs = {} module_makeargs["perl-xml-parser"]="EXPATLIBPATH=" + prefix + "/lib EXPATINCPATH=${prefix}/include " path = prefix + '/bin/install-check' if os.path.exists(path): os.environ['INSTALL'] = path #Comment this out if you want to build with your default sdk; make a #similar function (it's in .jhbuildrc) if you want to set a different #sdk altogether. #setup_sdk_10_4() moduleset = os.path.expanduser("~/gnucash.modules") modules = ['meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap', 'meta-gtk-osx-core', 'meta-gtk-osx-freetype', 'gnucash'] build_policy = "updated-deps"
Gnucash Moduleset
Paste the following into a file named gnucash.modules in your home folder:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE moduleset SYSTEM "moduleset.dtd"> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="moduleset.xsl"?> <moduleset> <repository type="svn" name="svn.gnome.org" default="yes" href="http://svn.gnome.org/svn/"/> <repository type="tarball" name="kernel.org" href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/"/> <repository type='tarball' name='ftp.gnu.org' href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/"/> <repository type='tarball' name='sourceforge' href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/"/> <repository type="cvs" name="slib.savannah.gnu.org" cvsroot=":pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/slib" password=""/> <repository type="tarball" name="gnucash.org" href="http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/"/> <include href="http://people.imendio.com/richard/gtk-osx-build/modulesets/gtk-osx.modules"/> <tarball id='readline' autogen-sh='configure'> <source href='ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.2.tar.gz'/> <patches> <patch file='ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.2-patches/readline52-001' strip='2' /> <patch file='ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.2-patches/readline52-002' strip='2' /> <patch file='ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.2-patches/readline52-003' strip='2' /> <patch file='ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.2-patches/readline52-004' strip='2' /> <patch file='ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.2-patches/readline52-005' strip='2' /> <patch file='ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.2-patches/readline52-006' strip='2' /> <patch file='ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.2-patches/readline52-007' strip='2' /> <patch file='ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.2-patches/readline52-008' strip='2' /> <patch file='ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.2-patches/readline52-009' strip='2' /> <patch file='ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.2-patches/readline52-010' strip='2' /> <patch file='ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.2-patches/readline52-011' strip='2' /> <patch file='ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.2-patches/readline52-012' strip='2' /> </patches> </tarball> <autotools id="OpenSP" autogen-sh='configure' autogenargs="--disable-static --enable-shared --disable-doc-build"> <branch repo="sourceforge" module="openjade/OpenSP-1.5.2.tar.gz" version='1.5.2'/>> </autotools> <autotools id="libofx" autogen-sh='configure'> <branch repo="sourceforge" module="libofx/libofx-0.9.0.tar.gz" version='0.9.0'/> <dependencies> <dep package='guile-1.6'/> <dep package="OpenSP"/> </dependencies> </autotools> <autotools id="guile-1.6" autogen-sh="configure" autogenargs="--disable-static --enable-shared --disable-scrollkeeper --disable-xlib"> <branch repo="ftp.gnu.org" module="guile/guile-1.6.8.tar.gz" version="1.6.7" size="3114052" /> <dependencies> <dep package='readline'/> </dependencies> </autotools> <autotools id="Slib" skip-autogen="true"> <branch repo="slib.savannah.gnu.org" module="slib"/> <dependencies> <dep package="guile-1.6"/> </dependencies> </autotools> <autotools id="gnucash" autogen-sh="configure" autogenargs="--enable-ofx"> <branch module="gnucash-2.2.5.tar.gz" version="2.2.5" repo="gnucash.org"/> <dependencies> <dep package="goffice"/> <dep package="libofx"/> <dep package="gtkhtml"/> <dep package="Slib"/> </dependencies> </autotools> </moduleset>
GnuCash Start Script (commandline)
Replace $PREFIX/bin/gnucash with this:
PREFIX="~/gtk/inst/" #You'll have to fix this up if you changed it export PREFIX PATH="$PREFIX/bin:${PATH}" export PATH GUILE_WARN_DEPRECATED="no" export GUILE_WARN_DEPRECATED if test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS"; then eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session --config-file=$PREFIX/etc/dbus-1/session.conf` fi GNC_MODULE_PATH="$PREFIX/lib/gnucash:${GNC_MODULE_PATH}" EXTRA_PATH="${EXTRA_PATH}:$PREFIX/share/gnucash/guile-modules" EXTRA_PATH="${EXTRA_PATH}:$PREFIX/share/gnucash/scm" GUILE_LOAD_PATH="${EXTRA_PATH}:${GUILE_LOAD_PATH}" EXTRA_LIBS="${GNC_MODULE_PATH}" EXTRA_LIBS="${EXTRA_LIBS}:/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ImageIO.framework/Versions/A/Resources/" EXTRA_LIBS="${EXTRA_LIBS}:$PREFIX/lib" EXTRA_LIBS="${EXTRA_LIBS}:$PREFIX/lib/gnucash" LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${EXTRA_LIBS}:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}" DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${EXTRA_LIBS}:${DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}" export GNC_MODULE_PATH export GUILE_LOAD_PATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH exec gnucash-bin "$@"
Gnucash Start Script (Bundler)
If you're going to use the bundler, paste this file into your bundle directory named gnucash-launcher; to run from the command line, put this in $PREFIX/bin/gnucash.
#!/bin/sh if test "x$IGE_DEBUG_LAUNCHER" != x; then set -x fi if test "x$IGE_DEBUG_GDB" != x; then EXEC="gdb --args" else EXEC=exec fi name="`basename $0`" tmp="`pwd`/$0" tmp=`dirname "$tmp"` tmp=`dirname "$tmp"` bundle=`dirname "$tmp"` bundle_contents="$bundle"/Contents bundle_res="$bundle_contents"/Resources bundle_lib="$bundle_res"/lib bundle_bin="$bundle_res"/bin bundle_data="$bundle_res"/share bundle_etc="$bundle_res"/etc export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="$bundle_lib" export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS="$bundle_etc"/xdg export XDG_DATA_DIRS="$bundle_data" export GTK_DATA_PREFIX="$bundle_data" export GTK_EXE_PREFIX="$bundle_res" export GTK_PATH="$bundle_res" export GTK2_RC_FILES="$bundle_etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc" export GTK_IM_MODULE_FILE="$bundle_etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules" export GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE="$bundle_etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders" export PANGO_RC_FILE="$bundle_etc/pango/pangorc" # We need a UTF-8 locale. export LANG="`grep \`defaults read .GlobalPreferences AppleCollationOrder 2>&1\`_ /usr/share/locale/locale.alias | tail -n1 | sed 's/\./ /' | awk '{print $2}'`.UTF-8" if test -f "$bundle_lib/charset.alias"; then export CHARSETALIASDIR="$bundle_lib" fi # Extra arguments can be added in environment.sh. EXTRA_ARGS="--config-path $bundle_etc/gnucash --share-path $bundle_data/gnucash --debug" if test -f "$bundle_res/environment.sh"; then source "$bundle_res/environment.sh" fi # Strip out the argument added by the OS. if [ x`echo "x$1" | sed -e "s/^x-psn_.*//"` == x ]; then shift 1 fi PFX=${bundle_res} export PFX PATH="${PFX}/bin:${PATH}" export PATH GUILE_WARN_DEPRECATED="no" export GUILE_WARN_DEPRECATED if test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS"; then eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session --config-file=$bundle_res/etc/dbus-1/session.conf` fi GNC_MODULE_PATH="${PFX}/lib/gnucash:${GNC_MODULE_PATH}" EXTRA_PATH="${EXTRA_PATH}:${PFX}/share/gnucash/guile-modules" EXTRA_PATH="${EXTRA_PATH}:${PFX}/share/gnucash/scm" GUILE_LOAD_PATH="${EXTRA_PATH}:${GUILE_LOAD_PATH}" EXTRA_LIBS="${GNC_MODULE_PATH}" EXTRA_LIBS="${EXTRA_LIBS}:/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ImageIO.framework/Versions/A/Resources/" EXTRA_LIBS="${EXTRA_LIBS}:${PFX}/lib" EXTRA_LIBS="${EXTRA_LIBS}:${PFX}/lib/gnucash" LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:${EXTRA_LIBS}:" DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}:${EXTRA_LIBS}" export GNC_MODULE_PATH export GUILE_LOAD_PATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH $EXEC "$bundle_contents/MacOS/$name-bin" $* $EXTRA_ARGS
GnuCash Info.Plist
This is the Info.Plist required of all App Bundles. Paste into "Info.Plist" in the bundle directory.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key> <string>English</string> <key>CFBundleExecutable</key> <string>GnuCash</string> <key>CFBundleGetInfoString</key> <string>GnuCash version 2.2.5 © 2007 Free Software Foundation</string> <key>CFBundleIconFile</key> <string>gnucash.icns</string> <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key> <string>org.gnucash.GnuCash</string> <key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key> <string>6.0</string> <key>CFBundleLongVersionString</key> <string>2.2.5 © 2007 Free Software Foundation</string> <key>CFBundleName</key> <string>GnuCash</string> <key>CFBundlePackageType</key> <string>APPL</string> <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key> <string>2.2.5</string> <key>CFBundleSignature</key> <string>????</string> <key>CFBundleVersion</key> <string>2.2.5</string> <key>CSResourcesFileMapped</key> <true/> <key>LSRequiresCarbon</key> <true/> <key>NSHumanReadableCopyright</key> <string>Copyright 2007 Free Software Foundation</string> </dict> </plist>
GnuCash Bundle Description
This one configures the bundler to create the app bundle. Paste it into the bundler directory and name it 'gnucash.bundle':
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> <!--*- mode: xml -*--> <app-bundle> <meta> <!-- Where to pick up the GTK+ installation, icon themes, etc. Note that "${env:PREFIX}" is evaluated to the value of the environment variable PREFIX, and likewise with HOME. You can define additional prefixes and refer to them in paths throughout this file on the form "${prefix:name}". This is useful for installing certain libraries or even the application itself separately. --> <prefix name="default">${env:PREFIX}</prefix> <!-- The project directory is the default location of the created app. If you leave out the path, the current directory is used. --> <destination overwrite="yes">${env:HOME}/gnucash-bundler</destination> <image> <!-- Not implemented yet (DMG image). --> </image> <run-install-name-tool/> <!-- Optionally specify a launcher script to use. If the application sets up everything needed itself, like environment variable, linker paths, etc, a launcher script is not needed. If the source path is left out, the default script will be used. --> <launcher-script>${project}/gnucash-launcher</launcher-script> <!-- Not implemented: Optional runtime, could be python or mono for example. --> <!--runtime copy="yes">/usr/bin/python</runtime--> </meta> <!-- The special macro "${project}" refers to the directory where this bundle file is located. The application name and bundle identifier are taken from the plist file. --> <plist>${project}/Info.plist</plist> <main-binary>${prefix}/bin/gnucash-bin</main-binary> <!-- Copy in GTK+ and Pango modules. Note the use of the "${pkg:module:variable}" macro, which evaluates to a pkg-config variable in the specified module. Note that any libraries that binaries link to are also copied in automatically. --> <binary> ${prefix}/lib/gtk-2.0/${pkg:gtk+-2.0:gtk_binary_version}/loaders/*.so </binary> <binary> ${prefix}/lib/pango/${pkg:pango:pango_module_version}/modules/pango-basic-fc.so </binary> <binary> ${prefix}/lib/GConf/2/*.so </binary> <binary> ${prefix}/lib/gnucash </binary> <binary> ${prefix}/libexec </binary> <binary> ${prefix}/bin/dbus-launch </binary> <binary> ${prefix}/bin/dbus-daemon </binary> <!-- Data to copy in, usually Glade/UI files, images, sounds files etc. The destination inside the bundle can be specified if the files should end up at a different location, by using the "dest" property. The destination must then start with the macro "${bundle}", which refers to the bundle root directory. --> <data> ${prefix}/share/gnucash </data> <data> ${prefix}/share/guile </data> <data> ${prefix}/share/gnome </data> <!--data dest="${bundle}/Contents/Resources/slib"--> <data> ${prefix}/lib/slib </data> <data dest="${bundle}/Contents/Resources"> ${prefix}/share/gnucash/pixmaps/gnucash.icns </data> <data dest='${bundle}/Contents/Resources/lib/'> ${prefix}/lib/*.la </data> <data dest='${bundle}/Contents/Resources/var/lib/dbus/machine-id'> ${prefix}/var/lib/dbus/machine-id </data> <data dest='${bundle}/Contents/Resources/etc/dbus-1/'> ${prefix}/etc/dbus-1/ </data> <!-- Icon themes to copy. The "icons" property can be either of "auto", "all", or "none". All or none should be self-explanatory, while auto means that the script will try to figure out which icons are needed. This is done by getting all the strings from all copied binaries, and matching them against icon names. To be safe, you should use "all". "none" is useful if you want just the index.theme file but no icons, mostly needed for the "hicolor" base theme. --> <!-- icon-theme icons="auto"/> Tango </icon-theme --> </app-bundle>