[GNC] Trouble building 4.1

[Tim Kallmer]

Thank you, David. After your suggestion, building 4.1 worked perfectly.

As an aside for others, before building, I was able to get 4.1 via flatpak,
but my GTK-3.0.css modifications didn't work. So I prefer to build myself
instead of using flatpak.

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 3:28 AM David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com>
wrote:

> Tim
>
> You need to install the development headers for this library and the
> library itself for runtime use:
>
> sudo apt install libgwengui-gtk3-0 libgwengui-gtk3-dev
>
> You may also run into a problem with mysql8.0. I had to downgrade
> libmysqlclient21 to get GnuCash to build. Cure is
> detailed in a post by me in the last week or so.
>
> David Cousens
>
> On Wed, 2020-08-05 at 07:19 -0500, Tim Kallmer wrote:
> > I'm on Ubuntu 20.04. I have built several 3.x versions successfully in
> the
> > past. But I am having trouble building 4.1.
> >
> > Here is the end of the `cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/.local
> > ../gnucash-4.1
> > ` output where it seems to fail:
> >
> > -- Looking for AB_Banking_RuntimeConfig_SetCharValue
> > -- Looking for AB_Banking_RuntimeConfig_SetCharValue - not found
> > -- Checking for module 'gwengui-gtk3'
> > --   No package 'gwengui-gtk3' found
> > CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-3.16/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:463
> > (message):
> >   A required package was not found
> > Call Stack (most recent call first):
> >   /usr/share/cmake-3.16/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:643
> > (_pkg_check_modules_internal)
> >   CMakeLists.txt:370 (pkg_check_modules)
> > -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
> > See also
> > "/home/username/Downloads/build-gnucash-4.1/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
> > See also
> > "/home/username/Downloads/build-gnucash-4.1/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".
> >
> > If I need to share the log files, let me know what the best way to do
> that
> > is.
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