[GNC] gnucash 5.3 compile errors

John Griessen john at industromatic.com
Thu Jun 29 18:06:23 EDT 2023


On 6/28/23 22:24, john wrote:
> I don't see the boost checks in you CMake output and the error is complaining that it can't find boost filesystem. Make sure that's installed by your package manager, remove any existing installed gnucash so that the linker doesn't get confused, and start from an empty build directory.

That did it.  The part, "Make sure that's installed by your package manager", was what I needed.  I'd tried monoths ago adding 
newer compiled versions of libboost-filesystem and they were still in /usr/local.  removing those fixed error messages and 
compiled to a working executable.


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