[GNC] Can't "Save As" to sqlite, is it a compile option?

[Adrien Monteleone]

See my other reply about versions and database support. I've been using 
SQlite3 since the 2.6.x days.

The build instructions on the wiki are very good. The most time will be 
spent reading and making sure you have the build environment and 
dependencies. If you get that right, the actual build is fairly quick 
and painless.

Regards,
Adrien

On 9/13/20 9:44 AM, Chris Green wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 03:34:10PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
>> I am running GnuCash 3.8 Build ID: 3.8b+(2019-12-29) on [x]ubuntu 20.04.
>>
>> I have started keeping a small PCC accounts with this but decided I
>> wanted to move to storing the data in sqlite rather than the default
>> XML.
>>
>> It doesn't seem to be possible, if I click on SaveAs in the File menu
>> the only Data Format I'm offered is XML.
>>
>> Is this because sqlite storage is a compile time option that hasn't
>> been included in the Ubuntu build, or is there something else I need
>> to do?
>>
> Ah!  I've just seen that sqlite is only supported from version 4.2 and
> I'm on version 3.8, so that explains it!
> 
> Does anyone have any experience of getting GnuCash >4.2 working on
> [x]Ubuntu?  Is it easy to compile/build? (I do have a fair amount of
> experience, I used to build my own Linux kernels etc.)
>