I'll try it with fink.
As far as the features I want to add, I was hoping to be able to contribute and didn't assume it was a simple snap of the fingers or else it would already be there.
I'll bring it up, explore the code, watch this list, and then go from there when I get comfortable.
Perry
On Sunday, Jun 29, 2003, at 19:46 US/Central, Derek Atkins wrote:
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
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