[GNC-dev] Noob: setup and build master

[John Ralls]

> On Mar 13, 2020, at 11:20 AM, Jean Laroche <ripngo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> It's because C++17 is set in GnuCash's CMakeLists.txt and boost defaults to building for C++14. I'd forgotten that I'd pushed that to the public master branch. I think the simplest way to rebuild it for you would be to add
>>    module_cmakeargs['boost'] = '-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=' . os.environ['CXXFLAGS'] . ' -std=c++17'
>> to jhbuildrc-custom then run
>>    jhbuild buildone --force --clean boost
>> If that doesn't work on its own try doing the buildone again but stop it and tell it to wipe the directory and start over.
> 
> John, is this going to work with xcode?
> Also, will that affect my maint branch (I have two separate build dirs for maint and master)?
> Jean

Jean,

If you mean can you do that in Xcode, no you can't.

Boost needs to be built to the highest standard you want to use, so it will still link with maint, which is built to C++11.

Regards,
John Ralls