success in building a native version of gnucash was: Re: how to build gimp +quartz?

[Altoine Barker]

Please do, I am so interested.

-Altoine


Olaf Foellinger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> thanks for your help.
> 
> * David Evans <devans at orindasoftware.com> [19.10.08 22:06]wrote:
> 
>> Olaf Foellinger wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> today I've tried to build 
>>>
>>> $ sudo port install gimp-app +quartz
>>>
>>> on a relative freshly installed macports. Before I've installed the x11
>>> version of gnucash.
>>>
>>> Macports has installed the x11 version of gimp to. What do I have to do
>>> to install the quartz version? My next target would be the quartz
>>> version of gnucash which should be possible according to 
>>>
>>> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSX/Quartz 
>>>
>>> Gruß Olaf
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>> I'm not sure that anyone has succeeded doing this with version 2.6.1
>> yet.  Even the
>> official GIMP On MacOSX prebuilt version is X11.
> 
> O.k. it seems to be difficult.
>  
>> The general idea is that you have to rebuild gtk2 and its dependencies
>> with +quartz or +no_x11 as is the case
>> by looking at each port and then rebuild gimp using these as the
>> dependencies.
> 
> Yes, thanks.
>> This will break a lot of things that expect x11 support in other apps so
>> you probably would
>> want to do this using a separate MacPorts installation just for this
>> purpose.
> 
> Done.
> 
>> Another approach is to build separate copies of the underlying
>> dependencies using Imendio's
>> system for building GTK in native mode.  A description of how to go
>> about this can be found
>> on the gimp.org wiki (Wilber's Wiki)  here
>>
>> http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/HowToCompileGimp/MacOSX
>>
>> Hope this helps and if you have any success or run into specific
>> problems please let us know.
> 
> I've started with GnuCash and have now a native version up and running.
> Of course it's not polished and there are a lot of messages in the
> console but it seems to work fine. I will report the details later.
> 
> Gruß Olaf
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