[GNC] 5.4 build on linux

[David Cousens]

Mike

The wiki is working from Australia. relevant page is
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_On_Linux. I built 5.4 on Linux Mint
Victoria on Tuesday with no problems.It is much easier and generally quicker
using cmake and ninja.

sudo apt-get install cmake
sudo apt-get install ninja

will install them. The following commands in a terminal opened at the unpacked
gnucash-5.4 directory will usually build it and install it for use by all users.
The cmake output will tell you if any dependencies are missing.

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -GNinja -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local _DWITH_PYTHON=ON ../
ninja
sudo ninja install

David Cousens

On Mon, 2023-09-25 at 15:10 -0700, Mike Commissaris wrote:
> Downloaded the file from both Sourceforge and Git and when I tried to build
> I failed with:
>        make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> Thinking the build instructions may have changed I tried to look at the
> Wiki and it appears the
> Wiki is down.