2005-10-04 Woozle tries to compile KMyMoney

I decided to take a stab at tweaking some of KMyMoney's problems, starting with easy ones like the flashing red-on-yellow in the import-confirmation window.

08:46 EDT

For each of the files below, I was able to find what seemed to be the official web site at or near the top of a Google search.

• Got the source from Sourceforge
• Ran ./configure
• Message said that OFX support was not included because the libofx headers were not found. Got libofx source.
• Ran ./configure on that
• Message says libofx needs something called OpenSP, which apparently has something to do with reading certain document types (perhaps OFX is a form of XML?)
• Got OpenSP source.
• Ran ./configure on that. Success.
• Went back to libofx and ran ./configure again; it still couldn't find OpenSP. Oh, wait, I need to *compile* OpenSP.
• Went back to OpenSP and compiled it (just type "make"). This takes a few minutes. Compilation successful.
• Went back to libofx and ran ./configure again again. OpenSP includes still not found. Hmm. Run OpenSP "make install", maybe?
• Went back to OpenSP. Ran make install. Errors... oh yeah, have to do installation as root. Ran make install again. Apparent success.
• Back to libofx. Exited root prompt and ran ./configure again. Seems to have been successful.
• Oh, wait, somehow I ended up still in OpenSP. Went back into libofx (this time for real) and ran ./configure.
• Apparent success. Ok, now go into root and run make install on libofx...
• Apparent success. Now back to kmymoney ./configure...
• kmymoney still says libofx headers are missing. Give up for now, as I have pressing things to do.