Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #66119, comment 7


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Nov 4, 2022, 7:40:41 AM (2 years ago)
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JDLH (Jim DeLaHunt)
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  • Ticket #66119, comment 7

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    33There is evidence that upstream expects gnucash to compile on arm64.
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    5 1. Their [macOS/Quarts build instructions](https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOS/Quartz) say, "Apple Silicon is first supported in macOS 11. We have never successfully cross-compiled the Gtk stack so you'll probably need an Apple Silicon Mac to build an Apple Silicon native GnuCash. Note that as of October 2022 WebKitGtk isn't able to find its loadable modules so that reports don't render in GnuCash." That would be a curious thing to say if they had never got GnuCash working at all when compiling on Apple Silicon.
     51. Their [https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOS/Quartz|macOS/Quartz build instructions] say, "Apple Silicon is first supported in macOS 11. We have never successfully cross-compiled the Gtk stack so you'll probably need an Apple Silicon Mac to build an Apple Silicon native GnuCash. Note that as of October 2022 WebKitGtk isn't able to find its loadable modules so that reports don't render in GnuCash." That would be a curious thing to say if they had never got GnuCash working at all when compiling on Apple Silicon.
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    7 2. I am attempting to build gnucash from source, following their instructions. One of their developers is helping me in an [email thread "Various failures while building MacOS/Quartz from source"](https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2022-November/046373.html). I have not yet got the push-back, "don't try to build on arm64, we know it doesn't work".
     72. I am attempting to build gnucash from source, following their instructions. One of their developers is helping me in an [https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2022-November/046373.html email thread "Various failures while building MacOS/Quartz from source"]. I have not yet got the push-back, "don't try to build on arm64, we know it doesn't work".
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    99It looks like I will need to take up both this crash, and the issue of port **gtk-osx-application-common-gtk3** preventing port **gnucash** from building, with the friendly folks at Gnucash-devel. I think I will wait a bit to see if I can resolve my current thread of building from source first, so that I don't make their list, um, too multi-threaded.