compiling mmex for mac

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compiling mmex for mac

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Hello, 
I'm trying to compile mmex from git master repository on my mac. The compilation went well despite a few warning and the program is running. However, the "home page" and reports do not show up (all I have is a white page, with sometimes a menu on top as with the "My Usage" report. If I switch the webserver on and go to 127.0.0.1:8080, I get the "home page" report, as expected, so the html pages seems to be correctly generated, but are not showing up the mmex.

Does anybody has an idea why this doesn't work in mmex ? Are there logs written somewhere ? I cannot find them on my computer. If i launch mmex from the command line, I get a warning I don't understand:

2016-02-17 19:21:57.207 MMEX[64239:1267895] NSDocumentController Info.plist warning: The values of CFBundleTypeRole entries must be 'Editor', 'Viewer', 'None', or 'Shell'.

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Re: compiling mmex for mac

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I don't know how to help here. But in Windows mmex reports rendering depends of Internet Explorer. 
May be in your case son thing wrong with internet browser. Or may be MS Internet Explorer needed.
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Re: compiling mmex for mac

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Thanks for your quick reply, Nikolay, mmex 1.2.5 from github release works without problem on my computer. I wanted to test a few things on the code, that's why I'd like to be able to compile the program.

Do you know if there's a way to make mmex log to a file what's happening while starting up ? 

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Re: compiling mmex for mac

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There are some wxLogDebug in the code for debuting but I don't know how to logging errors. I am using Debug build and breakpoints for debuging.
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Re: compiling mmex for mac

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xraynaud -

Just wanted to make sure you found the mac build wiki page. See especially the mmex configure line since it seems like you got most everything else going.

I'm guessing your app bundle doesn't have the correct folder structure. Mine looks like this:

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mmex.app/
└── Contents
    ├── Info.plist
    ├── MacOS
    │   └── MMEX
    ├── Resources
    │   ├── mmdb.icns
    │   └── mmex.icns
    └── SharedSupport
        ├── applications
        │   └── mmex.desktop
        ├── contrib.txt
        ├── doc
        │   └── mmex
        │       ├── contrib.txt
        │       ├── help
        │       │   ├── GRM.gif
        │       │   ├── btn_donateCC_LG.gif
        │       │   ├── budget.html
        │       │   ├── budget_editor.png
        │       │   ├── budget_entry_details.png
        │       │   ├── budget_grid.png
        │       │   ├── french
        │       │   │   ├── account.jpg
        │       │   │   ├── add_acc_wizard1.jpg
        │       │   │   ├── add_acc_wizard2.jpg
        │       │   │   ├── add_acc_wizard3.jpg
        │       │   │   ├── index.html
        │       │   │   ├── investment.html
        │       │   │   ├── main_screen.jpg
        │       │   │   └── mmex_concept.png
        │       │   ├── general_report_manager.html
        │       │   ├── hungarian
        │       │   │   ├── budget.html
        │       │   │   ├── index.html
        │       │   │   ├── investment.html
        │       │   │   └── mmex_concept_hu.png
        │       │   ├── index.html
        │       │   ├── investment.html
        │       │   ├── italian
        │       │   │   ├── index.html
        │       │   │   ├── investment.html
        │       │   │   ├── mmex_concept.png
        │       │   │   ├── stock_dialog.jpg
        │       │   │   ├── stock_options.jpg
        │       │   │   └── stock_view.jpg
        │       │   ├── mmex_concept.png
        │       │   ├── mmex_db_structure.png
        │       │   ├── polish
        │       │   │   ├── GRM.gif
        │       │   │   ├── btn_donateCC_LG.gif
        │       │   │   ├── budget.html
        │       │   │   ├── budget_editor.png
        │       │   │   ├── budget_entry_details.png
        │       │   │   ├── budget_grid.png
        │       │   │   ├── general_report_manager.html
        │       │   │   ├── index.html
        │       │   │   ├── investment.html
        │       │   │   ├── mmex_concept.png
        │       │   │   ├── mmex_structure.jpg
        │       │   │   ├── stock_dialog.jpg
        │       │   │   ├── stock_options.jpg
        │       │   │   └── stock_view.jpg
        │       │   ├── russian
        │       │   │   ├── index.html
        │       │   │   ├── investment.html
        │       │   │   ├── mmex_concept.png
        │       │   │   └── stock_dialog.png
        │       │   ├── spanish
        │       │   │   ├── budget.html
        │       │   │   ├── index.html
        │       │   │   └── investment.html
        │       │   ├── stock_dialog.png
        │       │   ├── stock_options.png
        │       │   └── stock_view.png
        │       ├── license.txt
        │       └── version.txt
        ├── icons
        │   └── hicolor
        │       └── scalable
        │           └── apps
        │               └── mmex.svg
        ├── license.txt
        ├── man
        │   └── man1
        │       └── mmex.1.gz
        ├── po
        │   └── en
        │       ├── arabic.mo
        │       ├── bulgarian.mo
        │       ├── chinese_chs.mo
        │       ├── chinese_zh.mo
        │       ├── croatian.mo
        │       ├── czech.mo
        │       ├── dutch.mo
        │       ├── dutch_be.mo
        │       ├── english-uk.mo
        │       ├── english.mo
        │       ├── french.mo
        │       ├── german.mo
        │       ├── greek.mo
        │       ├── hebrew.mo
        │       ├── hindi.mo
        │       ├── hungarian.mo
        │       ├── indonesian.mo
        │       ├── italian.mo
        │       ├── latvian.mo
        │       ├── norwegian.mo
        │       ├── polish.mo
        │       ├── portuguese.mo
        │       ├── portuguese_br.mo
        │       ├── portuguese_portugal.mo
        │       ├── romanian.mo
        │       ├── russian.mo
        │       ├── serbian.mo
        │       ├── serbo-croatian.mo
        │       ├── slovak.mo
        │       ├── slovenian.mo
        │       ├── spanish.mo
        │       ├── swedish.mo
        │       ├── tamil.mo
        │       ├── turkish.mo
        │       ├── ukrainian.mo
        │       └── vietnamese.mo
        ├── res
        │   ├── Chart.js
        │   ├── ChartNew.js
        │   ├── home_page.htt
        │   ├── kaching.wav
        │   ├── master.css
        │   ├── mmex.ico
        │   └── sorttable.js
        └── version.txt
The res folder near the end is critical.

Let me know if that helps!

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Re: compiling mmex for mac

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xraynaud wrote:2016-02-17 19:21:57.207 MMEX[64239:1267895] NSDocumentController Info.plist warning: The values of CFBundleTypeRole entries must be 'Editor', 'Viewer', 'None', or 'Shell'. 
I have seen this before - it is unrelated to the symptoms you are describing.
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Re: compiling mmex for mac

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thanks omaleypat,

I didn't exactly followed the wiki page as I have installed wx with brew, but I have the same configure command line. However, one of the problems is that with this command line, is that when I launch the program after complation, I get an error message: can't open file '/Users/xavier/GitHub/moneymanagerex-1.3/mmex.app/Contents/Resources/home_page.htt' (error 2: No such file or directory)". I am not sure why I get this error as mmex is supposed to look for home_page.htt in the configure script datarootdir, which was set to "mmex.app/Contents/SharedSupport", not Resources. Moving the file to Resources removes the error but I don't get any reports.

I agree that this seems to be a problem with the program finding the files needed to draw the reports (I tested with the GRM manager my own reports and the SQL queries work correctly). However, I don't understand why the program looks for files in places that where not configured at compilation. 
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Re: compiling mmex for mac

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Try to put it in SharedSupport/res like the listing above. That works on my system. I think the Makefile should have put it in there if you run make install when it was configured with the additional options specified on the wiki.

The problem is that the Bakefiles need to be updated. They were made for linux and I've figured out which configure options need to be set to get it to work on the mac (that is what is posted to the wiki). You are right that we should not need to do all that and fixing this has been on my to-do list for some time, but the bakefile version 0.2.9 used by the project is very old and does not work on the current Mac OS. It would require upgrading all the bakefiles to the current version of Bakefile first, then adding the modifications to fix the mac-specific issues. Since there never seemed to be many other interested mac devs, I haven't spent the time to do it since I have it working.

I used the command "tree" to list the folder structure of the app bundle. You can probably get tree from brew. Just make sure the directory structure in your app bundle is the same as the one I posted and I think that should fix your issue. Hope that helps!
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You've inspired me to dig a little deeper into the Bakefiles issue. I've got it running on my Mac now and have updated the wiki page with instructions for how to get it to work. I'll look at fixing things some other time.

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Re: compiling mmex for mac

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xraynaud,

All my earlier comments were based on the branch v1.2.x. I tried compiling master today and am having all kinds of trouble. I'll need time to sort through all the issues there. If you want to try to build v1.2.x, I think you should be able to do it without much difficulty.

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