Hi. Perry Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, > > I am attempting to get GNUCash up on Mac OSX. I looked at the archive > of this list and there are only two hits for "mac osx". I've started > a VERY rough journal of my adventures of trying to get GNUCash to > compile on the Mac. You can see my adventures here: > > http://www.easesoftware.net/GNUCash_project.html GnuCash works great on MacOS X. Try: go to fink.sourceforge.net download and install fink fink updateself pull in the (from-unstable) gnucash-1.8.4 specification fink install gnucash wait about 10-24 hours for it to build everything -- be sure to check back periodically in case it needs user input. > I am hoping to keep the journal and eventually clean it up so that > other Mac users can follow my footsteps. But if someone else has > already done this, I'm happy to follow them. I may, in fact, start > completely over from scratch. I spent a weekend about a month ago on > this. At that time, the GNUCash mailing lists had a message that said > the lists were broken. I was doing my work without CVS or fink. It > may be much easier to use both of those in the process. Uh, yea... Do it with fink... > My goal is to move GNUCash towards business applications. I need > payroll and inventory. So far, I have not seen those listed on the > features. I am curious first to see if GNUCash is closer to a real > accounting system or if it follows too closely in Quicken's footsteps. > I'm planning on using the DB backend. I even have fantasies of > hooking all this up to a web based store to sell my photography. GnuCash 1.8 already does have some small business features, however it does not have payroll or inventory. It is a real accounting system (although the UI tries to make life simple) however adding those features is not a simple "change some SQL". Also, the postgres backend does not support the business features at this time, so, unfortuately, you can't do what you want at this point in time.... > So... in short, if anyone can help me with bring up of GNUCash on Mac > OSX, I would love to hear from them. > > Thank you, > Perry Smith Enjoy.. -derek -- 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
