[GNC-dev] building gnucash

[Kevin T]

Hi All,

yan.  yet another newbie

New installation of centos stream 8

[kt at localhost gnucash-build]$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
CentOS Stream release 8
[kt at localhost gnucash-build]$ cmake --version
cmake version 3.20.2

i had to install these packages to get to the starting point for
gnucash.

drwxrwxr-x. 13 kt kt     4096 Jul  6 14:43 gc-8.0.6
drwxrwxr-x. 16 kt kt     4096 Jul  5 21:27 gmp-6.2.1
drwxr-xr-x. 15 kt kt     4096 Jul  6 19:04 gnucash-4.11
drwxr-xr-x. 21 kt kt     4096 Jul  6 14:45 guile-3.0.8
drwxrwxr-x. 11 kt kt     4096 Jul  6 14:20 libffi-3.4.2
drwxrwxr-x. 10 kt kt     4096 Jul  5 21:32 libunistring-1.0


I had to create the /glib-2.0 dir and other sub dirs.

[kt at localhost gnucash-build]$ echo $SRCROOT
/home/kt/Sources/gnucash-4.11

[kt at localhost gnucash-build]$ ls $SRCROOT
AUTHORS         ChangeLog.2001  ChangeLog.2007  ChangeLog.2013  ChangeL
og.2019  CMakeLists.txt  gnucash     README
bindings        ChangeLog.2002  ChangeLog.2008  ChangeLog.2014  ChangeL
og.2020  common          HACKING     README.dependencies
borrowed        ChangeLog.2003  ChangeLog.2009  ChangeLog.2015  ChangeL
og.2021  data            libgnucash  test-templates
ChangeLog       ChangeLog.2004  ChangeLog.2010  ChangeLog.2016  cmake  
         doc             LICENSE     util
ChangeLog.1999  ChangeLog.2005  ChangeLog.2011  ChangeLog.2017  CMakeCa
che.txt  DOCUMENTERS     NEWS
ChangeLog.2000  ChangeLog.2006  ChangeLog.2012  ChangeLog.2018  CMakeFi
les      gnome           po


The error @ line 66, I dont know what to do with.  The equal signs
demarcate the output of the screen.

=======================================================================
[kt at localhost gnucash-build]$ pwd
/home/kt/gnucash-build
[kt at localhost gnucash-build]$ cmake $SRCROOT/gnucash
CMake Warning (dev) in CMakeLists.txt:
  No project() command is present.  The top-level CMakeLists.txt file
must
  contain a literal, direct call to the project() command.  Add a line
of
  code such as

    project(ProjectName)

  near the top of the file, but after cmake_minimum_required().

  CMake is pretending there is a "project(Project)" command on the
first
  line.
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Error at gnome/CMakeLists.txt:66 (gnc_add_swig_guile_command):
  Unknown CMake command "gnc_add_swig_guile_command".


CMake Warning (dev) in CMakeLists.txt:
  No cmake_minimum_required command is present.  A line of code such as

    cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.20)

  should be added at the top of the file.  The version specified may be
lower
  if you wish to support older CMake versions for this project.  For
more
  information run "cmake --help-policy CMP0000".
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
================================================================

this error line is in the file: $SRCROOT/gnucash/gnome/CMakeLists.txt

Untar'd and I have changed NOTHING in the source code. 
I have also tried the following (results from web search). Both
resulted in the same error. 

cmake $SRCROOT -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local
cmake $SRCROOT -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/.local

what is the solution to this stumbling block?

Thanks..  Kevin