[GNC] Compiling 2.6.12
John Ralls
jralls at ceridwen.us
Sun Sep 2 00:04:25 EDT 2018
Indeed, 2.6.12 is early enough that CMakeLists.txt wasn’t distributed in the tarball though it’s available if you clone the git repository. I don’t remember if we’d tested it enough at that point to be able to reliably build so you’re much better off using configure.
Having gtk+-2.0 isn’t enough to build with, you need gtk+-2.0-dev which includes the headers.
The easy way to get all of the dependencies install is
sudo apt-get build-dep gnucash
as stated in https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_I_heard_it_is_too_hard_to_compile_GnuCash.21 <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_I_heard_it_is_too_hard_to_compile_GnuCash.21>.
That trick doesn’t quite work for GnuCash3 on Debian/Ubuntu unless you’re running Sid (aka unstable), but it works fine on GnuCash2.
Regards,
John Ralls
> On Sep 1, 2018, at 1:08 PM, Paul Schwartz <pmjs1115 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I did read the guidance initially, but not thoroughly. I have gone back to
> following the specific guidance; installed all of the required packages.
>
> Tried the suggested cmake with a build directory not under the source
> directory. Received the error message
> CMake Error: The source directory "/home/paul/Downloads/gnucash-2.6.12"
> does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.
> Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI.
>
> CMake wasn't included in the installs. Trying ./configure --disable-dbi on
> the tarball still fails this time with
>
> Package gtk+-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you
> should add the directory containing `gtk+-2.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH
> environment variable No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
> configure: error: Library requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.24.0) not met;
> consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your
> libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
>
> gtk+-2.0 is installed, the latest from Ubuntu.
>
> Suggestions are welcome to help me get further.
> Paul
>
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 4:14 PM Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> wrote:
>
>> No, I meant libglib2.0-dev (I had a dash too much in my reply). And in
>> fact
>> that's also what's on the wiki page Stephen pointed you at. Did you read
>> that
>> page and follow the instructions ?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Geert
>>
>> Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 23:25:39 CEST schreef Paul Schwartz:
>>> apt complains that it can't find libglib-2.0-dev. Did you mean
>>> glib-2.0-dev? That was installed.
>>> Going to try a reboot just in case.
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 1:11 PM Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net>
>> wrote:
>>>> First -- be sure to cc the user group (gnucash-user at gnucash.org) so
>> that
>>>> others can jump in and help.
>>>>
>>>> Second -- I presume you have looked at this page
>>>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/BuildUbuntu16.04
>>>>
>>>> It has the entire list for building on 18.04. I know it says 16.04
>>>>
>>>> but it also works for 18.04
>>>>
>>>> Third -- you are aware that 2.6.19 is available for 18.04 from the
>>>> packaged libraries. That would have several bug fixes. In addition,
>>>> you could pull down 2.6.21 (as Geert suggested) and get even more
>> fixes.
>>>>
>>>> <<and then, why not jump to 3.2--some fix level? I pulled from the
>>>>
>>>> git library a couple weeks back to get some fixes for 3.2 and am happy.
>>>> Sounds like some more fixes were added in the last few days>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 08/31/2018 11:07 AM, Paul Schwartz wrote:O
>>>>
>>>>> Very long message
>>>>> Package glib-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps
>>>>> you should add the directory containing `glib-2.0.pc' to the
>>>>> PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'glib-2.0' found
>>>>> Package gio-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps
>>>>> you should add the directory containing `gio-2.0.pc' to the
>>>>> PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gio-2.0' found
>>>>> Package gthread-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
>>>>> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gthread-2.0.pc' to
>>>>> the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gthread-2.0'
>>>>> found Package gobject-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search
>> path.
>>>>> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gobject-2.0.pc' to
>>>>> the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gobject-2.0'
>>>>> found Package gmodule-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search
>> path.
>>>>> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gmodule-2.0.pc' to
>>>>> the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gmodule-2.0'
>> found
>>>>> configure: error: Library requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.28 gio-2.0 >=
>>>>> 2.25 gthread-2.0 gobject-2.0 gmodule-2.0) not met; consider adjusting
>>>>> the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a
>>>>> nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
>>>>>
>>>>> When you installed glib did you remove anything?
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul
>>>>
>>>> There was something funky on my machine and I did have to clean up some
>>>> items.
>>>> I searched my sent folder and found that gtest and gmock on my system
>>>> were very old.
>>>> You may need to remove them and then forcibly remove the two folders
>>>> /usr/src/gtest and /usr/src/gmock and then add them back:
>>>>
>>>> sudo apt-get install googletest
>>>> sudo apt-get install googlemock
>>>> sudo apt-get install libgtest-dev
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 11:48 AM Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net
>>>>>
>>>>> <mailto:kg7je at arrl.net>> wrote:
>>>>> On 08/31/2018 10:36 AM, Paul Schwartz wrote:
>>>>>> I have been trying to compile 2.6.12 on Ubuntu 18.04. I have
>> not
>>>>>
>>>>> been able
>>>>>
>>>>>> to get past the recognition of glib-2.0 in configure. I have
>>>>>
>>>>> installed
>>>>>
>>>>>> glib-2.0 and glib-2.0-dev with apt. I have tried setting
>>>>>
>>>>> PKG_CONFIG_PATH
>>>>>
>>>>>> to /usr/share before running
>>>>>
>>>>> conhttps://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/BuildUbuntu16.04figure. Nothing
>>>>> seems to work. Some
>>>>>
>>>>>> suggestions would be appreciated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Paul
>>>>>
>>>>> What error messages do you get? I was compiling 3.1 and 3.2 on
>>>>
>>>> Ubuntu
>>>>
>>>>> 18.04 and had to load the generic glib and let 18.04 figure out
>>>>> which
>>>>> one to install.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM
>>>>> Stephen.M.Butler51 at gmail.com <mailto:
>> Stephen.M.Butler51 at gmail.com>
>>>>> kg7je at arrl.net <mailto:kg7je at arrl.net>
>>>>> 253-350-0166
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