[GNC-dev] Compiling not working

[John Ralls]

> On Oct 23, 2019, at 11:15 AM, lists+gnucash at alexandervowinkel.de wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I am trying to compile gnucash.
> 
> I downloaded the tarball gnucash-3.7.tar.bz2,
> installed and compiled all necessary dependencies,
> run
>    mkdir mybuild && cd mybuild && cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/gnucash ..
> and then (inside the build directory)
>    make
> 
> and I get the following errors (snip, full in attachement)
> 
> [ 19%] Building CXX object libgnucash/engine/CMakeFiles/gncmod-engine.dir/Account.cpp.o
> /build/libgnucash/engine/Account.cpp:244:13: error: static inline [-Werror]
>  244 | G_INLINE_FUNC void mark_account (Account *acc);
>      |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> /build/libgnucash/engine/Account.cpp:262:13: error: G_ADD_PRIVATE [-Werror]
>  262 |     priv = GET_PRIVATE(acc);
>      |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> I am building inside a docker container (but this shouldn't be the problem, I guess).
> 
> What is the problem here?

Your Glib is too new. ;-)

See https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797407.

The simplest solution for you would be to build the maint branch from git.

Regards,
John Ralls