[GNC-dev] GnuCash 3.0 wine versus Windoze 10

[jeffrey black]

On 04/20/2018 11:44 AM, Robin Chattopadhyay wrote:
> David-
>
> Thank you very much for this comprehensive tutorial for building from
> source. I'm newish to Linux and I want to be able to do this but I've been
> confused. I managed to muddle through building 3.0 from source the evening
> before your email came.
>
> I have some lingering questions that maybe this group can help with:
> After downloading the source and extracting the files, I made a second
> directory for the build, so I had:
> /home/foo/gnucash-3.0
> /home/foo/gnucash-build
>
> Is this a correct/reasonable/best practice?
>
> After I successfully ran cmake and make install and I can run gnucash, what
> if anything, can I or should I delete? Or should I keep the source and
> build directories?
>
> I was running into problems with cmake when I set -D WITH_PYTHON=ON. I
> didn't capture any of the error messages, but it IIRC it was complaining
> about not having some test utility. I eventually switched to -D
> WITH_PYTHON=OFF and I was able to proceed. Is it possible that this is
> related to not installing the GTEST/GMOCK packages?
>
> Thanks,
> Robin
>
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 3:35 AM, DaveC49 <davidcousens at bigpond.com> wrote:
>
>> Jeffrey,
>>
>> I will start form scratch. The first step is setting up for building. My
>> apologies if I am teaching you to suck eggs. Linux Mint has an alias of apt
>> defined for apt-get. I am not sure if it is also defined in Ubuntu. If not
>> substitute apt-get where I have apt in the following.
>>
>> # first download a copy of the gnucash source code gnucash-3.0.tar.bz2 from
>> # https://www.gnucash.org/download.phtml and extract the gnucash-3.0
>> source
>> file. I use a folder called # Applications in my home directory for
>> programs
>> and libraries I build from scratch and usually keep the
>> # sources there so i can easily rebuild if I strike a problem, but that is
>> just a personal preference.
>>
>> #Open a terminal/bash shell and then cd to the extracted folder
>> gnucash-3.0.
>>
>> # this loads compilers,dev tools etc as per
>> https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/build-essential
>> $sudo apt install build essential
>> $sudo apt install cmake
>>
>> #the next step is to install the gnucash dependencies as listed in the
>> README.dependencies file under the #gnucash-3.0 folder. This generally
>> lists
>> the minimum version of the libraries required. You will generally find
>> that
>> Ubuntu will in most cases load a later version. I will list the command to
>> load  followed by the required version as in that file as a #comment
>> separated by a #. The list on https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building lists
>> the development headers that are required but you may also need to load the
>> libraries as well
>>
>> sudo apt-get install libtool libltdl-dev
>> #glib2 >        v2.40.0
>> sudo apt-get install libglib2.0 libglib2.0-dev
>> sudo apt-get install icu-devtools libicu-dev
>> # boost > 1.50.0
>> sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
>> # guile >=2.0.0
>> sudo apt-get install guile-2.0 guile-2.0-dev
>> #swig  >2.0.10
>> sudo apt-get install swig2.0
>> sudo apt-get install libxml2 libxml++2.6-dev
>> sudo apt-get install libxslt1.1 libxslt1-dev
>> sudo apt-get install xsltproc
>> sudo apt-get install libgtest-dev
>> sudo apt-get install gtk+3.0
>> sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev
>> sudo apt-get install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37
>> sudo apt-get install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev
>> sudo apt-get install libdbi1 libdbi-dev
>> # if you use a database backend  rather than the default XML backaend
>> # you need to load at least one of the following
>> # and choose the one relevant to the database you want to use
>> sudo apt-get install libdbd-pgsql   #PostgreSQL database
>> sudo apt-get install libdbd-mysql  # MySQL database
>> sudo -get install libdbd-sqlite3     #Sqlite database
>> # these are needed if you use online banking tools
>> sudo apt-get install libofx6 libofx4 libofx-dev
>> dpkg -lsudo apt-get aqbanking-tools libaqbanking-dev
>> # this is required on linux systems it may be already installed but will
>> tell you if it is
>> sudo apt-get install dconf-cli
>> #
>> # you can check out what versions of packages are installed or not using
>> the
>> following command
>> dpkg -l | grep <package name>
>> # here <package name> can be the actual package name or a substring. grep
>> will extract anything
>> # from the dpkg -l output which contains that substring
>> #
>> # The next step is getting googletest setup. The version from the Ubuntu
>> repository is 1.7.0 and does not
>> # contain gmock within the gtest download. V1.8.0 has both in the one
>> repository and is a little bit easier
>> #  to setup. Google do not recommend using googlemock and googletest as
>> shared dynamically linked
>> #  libraries because if a program is compiled with different compiler flags
>> from the libraries links to them
>> # at run time they can fail something I did not appreciate but I haven't
>> had
>> any problems so far.
>> # To set it up as recommended by Google and the developers, at a terminal
>> opened in a suitable folder (e.g. $HOME/Applications is what I use)  enter:
>> #
>> git clone https://github.com/google/googletest.git
>> #
>> #this will create a folder googletest-master which has sub folders
>> googletest and googlemock
>> #
>> cd googletest-master
>> cmake -D BUILD_GTEST -DBUILD_GMOCK
>> make
>> # this creates the gtest and gmock libraries within the googletest-master
>> folder but does not install them
>> # as shared dynamically linked libraries. You then need to create
>> environment variables pointing to the
>> # top level folders containing these libraries
>> export GTEST_ROOT=<path-to-googletest-master>/googletest
>> export GMOCK_ROOT=<path-to-googletest-master>/googlemock
>> # where <path-to-googletest-master> is in my case
>> $HOME/Applications/googletest-master. This allows
>> # CMake to find the googletest and googlemock libraries and include files
>> to
>> link into the program.
>> #
>> # At this point you should be ready to build gnucash. I prefer to install
>> it
>> in the /usr/local folder. This is
>> # where the linux distros generally install it. If your previous version
>> was
>> installed from a Linux
>> # distribution this is normally where it will be. It can also be installed
>> under /opt. The essential step I
>> # found was to ensure that all traces of any previous version of GnuCash
>> were removed before doing
>> # the build.
>> #If you previously had a version from the Linux distro
>> sudo apt-get remove gnucash
>> # should achieve this. If you built a previous version from sources and
>> still have the build sources
>> # change to the  build directory (may be the source directory (e.g.
>> gnucash-2.6.19) or may be directory
>> # named build, my-build or similar under the source directory) and type at
>> the terminal
>> sudo make uninstall
>> # to check whether you have been succesful or not type
>> whereis gnucash
>> # If nothing is returned then you have removed it successfully. If whereis
>> returns any of
>> /usr/local/bin/gnucash
>> /usr/local/etc/gnucash
>> /usr/local/lib/gnucash
>> # then those directories should be be removed. In this case use
>> rm -r /usr/local/bin/gnucash
>> rm-r /usr/local/etc/gnucash
>> rm -r /usr/local/lib/gnucash
>> #
>> # now open a terminal at the toplevel gnucash-3.0 folder
>> mkdir mybuild
>> cd mybuild
>> cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -D WITH_AQBANKING=OFF -D
>> WITH_OFX=ON ..
>> #
>> # You will find a full list of the option switches( i.e. -D WITH_...) with
>> their default values towards the top
>> # of the Wiki Build page https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building. I
>> required
>> the OFX support for loading
>> # OFX files but don't use the AQBANKING support as Australian banks
>> currently don't allow direct access.
>> # if you are using a database backend e.g. you would require -D WITH_SQL=ON
>> #
>> # cmake should do a lot of checks as it runs and issue sttus messages and
>> it
>> will stop if it encounters any
>> # problems. At this point come back with the terminal output and I (if it
>> is
>> failry simple) or perhaps one of
>> # the developers can help sort it out. If it succeeds you will get a
>> mesaage
>> saying that it is writing the
>> # make files into the mybuild directory you created above.  Note there was
>> some discussion of the
>> # mybuild directory having to be outside the gnucash-3.0 directory. This is
>> the case for building the
>> # documentation I believe, but is not the case for building GnuCash itself.
>> # If cmake completes successfully type at the terminal
>> make
>> # to build Gnucash. If make has any errors come back with the terminal
>> output. The only error i had here
>> # was with not having uninstalled the previous version fully.  If make
>> completes without error then
>> #type in the terminal
>> sudo make install
>> # which will install Gnucash
>> whereis gnucash
>> # should then return the following
>> /usr/local/bin/gnucash
>> /usr/local/etc/gnucash
>> /usr/local/lib/gnucash.
>>
>> If you have previously installed from the menu you should have a menu item
>> which points to /usr/local/bin/gnucash. If not create a new menu item for
>> Gnucash and put gnucash %f as the command and if you can locate a gnucash
>> icon set the icon to point to it. There is one in the sources at
>> ~/gnucash-3.0/data/pixmaps/gnucashicon.ico which you could copy to where
>> your system installs icons. I think it normally should be copied on
>> installation but there have been a few posts about it not being copied
>> possibly on Windows and Macs.
>>
>> If you have any problems come back on the forum and we will try to sort it
>> out from there.
>>
>> Good luck
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----
>> David Cousens
>> --
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David:

No offense taken.  It's not the first time I have had to have someone 
hold me by the hand and walk me trough the obvious stuff to build a 
program.

I will continue to use the default data structure files.  SQL and I have 
a tendency to argue with each other.

I will give your tutorial a try, in a few days.

Question:

I would like to run any builds I do under a different program name, 
keeping a stable version for backup use.  Any idea of how much of a hole 
I would be digging myself into?  Not as GnuCash but; say MyGnuCashBuild.

My guess is I would need to set up a VM to have different versions on 
the same system?  I would probably be better off to use my builds on 
this Ubuntu tower and continue with the stable on my laptop, with 
separate data files.

--JEffrey Black M.B.A