[GNC] Build From Source Near Impossible

[Christopher Lam]

AdrienM: You may have seen my successful experiment in building on Linux
(or WSL2) using Nix to load the dependencies into a temporary shell for
building. Note this is not considered canon.

https://github.com/christopherlam/gnucash-on-nix

On Wed, 10 Aug 2022 at 04:36, Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> Aha, thanks John. I wonder how much trouble it would be for a user to
> update their compiler or if that is just a mess for the rest of the
> system. (all else being equal, which I'm sure it isn't)
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> On 8/9/22 3:06 PM, John Ralls wrote:
> > Caveat: Check the dependency requirements in README.dependencies for the
> GnuCash version you're trying to build against what a particular OS release
> provides. Pay particular attention to the C++ standard level supported by
> the compiler, Boost, Cmake, and GLib. You can't build GnuCash 4.x on Ubuntu
> 14.04 or 16.04 because the compilers in those releases don't support C++17
> and that's required for GnuCash 4.x and later.
>
>
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