[GNC] Ubuntu distribution version

[David Cousens]

Derek,

Have you installed all the dependencies first
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Installing_Dependencies  If so

$sudo apt-get install googletest   

will install the googletest framework including google mock. 

In most cases cmake will give you the name of the library that is missing.
Eg the libdbi drivers. You can build GnuCash without them if you are not
using the database backends but the default build includes them and the unit
tests check their operation so they are now normally included in the default
build. I need to update the wiki to reflect that.. 

you need to do
$sudo apt-get install libdbi1 libdbi-dev 

and one of the following database drivers
$sudo apt-get install libdbd-mysql
or
$sudo apt-get install libdbd-pgsql
or
$sudo apt-get install libdbd-sqlite3.

The package names given in the cmake output may differ slightly from the
package names in the repository for a given distribution. Use

$apt-cache search <string>    

where string is a few characters from the package name will usually help in
identifying the correct name on your distribution . They may have 'lib'
prefixed onto the package name and may include other build information.

 In most cases for the build what need to be added to your system are the
development header files which generally have a postfix '-dev' onto the
package name. You will need the binary libraries at run time so I usually
include the binaries and headers in the install command but you may find the
binary libraries are often already installed by other programs/packages. apt
generally reports that and just installs the headers if they aren't present. 

You can safely ignore the warning re Gettext 0.20 (or build it if you are
feeling advenmturous). Once cmake completes without reporting any missing
packages you should be ready to buiild. Ninja is becoming the preferred
build utility rather than make. To use it you first install it with
sudo apt-get install ninja-build

and then add  a "-GNinja" flag to the cmake command.  the build and install
commandis then
$ninja
and 
$sudo ninja install

David Cousens



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