[GNC-dev] building gnucash

[John Ralls]

> On Jul 7, 2022, at 4:34 PM, Kevin T via gnucash-devel <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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?

Follow the instructions more carefully: The cmake command should be `cmake $SRCROOT` not `cmake $SRCROOT/gnucash`.

Regards,
John Ralls