[GNC] Building 5.0 on Ubuntu 18.04

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Wed Mar 29 15:06:37 EDT 2023 

At Wed, 29 Mar 2023 14:57:59 -0400 tommycw10 at gmail.com wrote:

> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm still running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS which is still supported by Ubuntu
> albeit a bit old.  I've been happily building all of the 4.x versions from
> source since the latest is not in this distro's repositories.  Now i'm
> trying to build version 5,0 and I'm running into a failure with cmake:
> 
> -----------------------------------------------
> ~/dev/build-gnucash-5.0
>  % cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local ../gnucash-5.0
> -- The C compiler identification is GNU 8.4.0
> -- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 7.5.0
> -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc
> -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc -- works
> -- Detecting C compiler ABI info
> -- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
> -- Detecting C compile features
> -- Detecting C compile features - done
> -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
> -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
> -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
> -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
> -- Detecting CXX compile features
> -- Detecting CXX compile features - done
> -- Found UnixCommands: /bin/bash
> -- Looking for pthread.h
> -- Looking for pthread.h - found
> -- Looking for pthread_create
> -- Looking for pthread_create - not found
> -- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads
> -- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads - not found
> -- Looking for pthread_create in pthread
> -- Looking for pthread_create in pthread - found
> -- Found Threads: TRUE
> -- Found PkgConfig: /usr/bin/pkg-config (found version "0.29.1")
> -- Checking for module 'glib-2.0>=2.56.1'
> --   Found glib-2.0, version 2.56.4
> -- Checking for module 'gio-2.0'
> --   Found gio-2.0, version 2.56.4
> -- Checking for module 'gobject-2.0'
> --   Found gobject-2.0, version 2.56.4
> -- Checking for module 'gmodule-2.0'
> --   Found gmodule-2.0, version 2.56.4
> -- Checking for module 'gthread-2.0'
> --   Found gthread-2.0, version 2.56.4
> -- Checking for module 'libxml-2.0>=2.9.4'
> --   Found libxml-2.0, version 2.9.4
> -- Checking for module 'libxslt'
> --   Found libxslt, version 1.1.29
> -- Checking for module 'webkit2gtk-4.0>=2.14.0'
> --   Found webkit2gtk-4.0, version 2.32.4
> -- Checking for module 'gtk+-3.0>=3.22.30'
> --   Found gtk+-3.0, version 3.22.30
> -- Checking for module 'zlib'
> --   Found zlib, version 1.2.11
> -- Found Gettext: /usr/local/bin/msgmerge (found suitable version "0.21.1",
> minimum required is "0.19.6")
> -- Found SWIG: /usr/bin/swig3.0 (found suitable version "3.0.12", minimum
> required is "3.0.12")
> -- Using guile-2.2.x
> -- Using guile SRFI-64
> -- Using guile textual-ports
> -- Checking for module 'gwenhywfar>=5.6.0'
> --   Found gwenhywfar, version 5.9.0
> -- Checking for module 'aqbanking>=6.2.0'
> --   Found aqbanking, version 6.5.3
> -- Looking for AB_Banking_RuntimeConfig_SetCharValue
> -- Looking for AB_Banking_RuntimeConfig_SetCharValue - not found
> -- Checking for module 'gwengui-gtk3'
> --   Found gwengui-gtk3, version 5.9.0
> -- Checking for module 'libofx'
> --   Found libofx, version 0.9.12
> -- Performing Test HAVE_OFX_BUG_39
> -- Performing Test HAVE_OFX_BUG_39 - Failed
> -- Found LibXslt: xslt;xml2 (found version "1.1.29")
> -- Found Perl: /usr/bin/perl (found version "5.26.1")
> -- Checking for module 'icu-uc'
> --   Found icu-uc, version 60.2
> -- Checking for module 'icu-i18n'
> --   Found icu-i18n, version 60.2
> -- Checking for module 'libsecret-1>=0.18'
> --   Found libsecret-1, version 0.18.6
> -- Boost 1.67.0 found.
> -- Found Boost components:
>    date_time;filesystem;locale;program_options;regex;system
> -- Performing Test have_stringop_truncation
> -- Performing Test have_stringop_truncation - Success
> -- Checking for GTEST
> -- Check if compiler accepts -pthread
> -- Check if compiler accepts -pthread - no
> -- Checking for GMOCK
> -- Looking for include file dirent.h
> -- Looking for include file dirent.h - found
> -- Looking for include file dlfcn.h
> -- Looking for include file dlfcn.h - found
> -- Looking for include file glob.h
> -- Looking for include file glob.h - found
> -- Looking for include file inttypes.h
> -- Looking for include file inttypes.h - found
> -- Looking for include file limits.h
> -- Looking for include file limits.h - found
> -- Looking for include file locale.h
> -- Looking for include file locale.h - found
> -- Looking for include file memory.h
> -- Looking for include file memory.h - found
> -- Looking for include file stdint.h
> -- Looking for include file stdint.h - found
> -- Looking for include file stdlib.h
> -- Looking for include file stdlib.h - found
> -- Looking for include file string.h
> -- Looking for include file string.h - found
> -- Looking for include file strings.h
> -- Looking for include file strings.h - found
> -- Looking for include file sys/stat.h
> -- Looking for include file sys/stat.h - found
> -- Looking for include file sys/time.h
> -- Looking for include file sys/time.h - found
> -- Looking for include file sys/times.h
> -- Looking for include file sys/times.h - found
> -- Looking for include file sys/types.h
> -- Looking for include file sys/types.h - found
> -- Looking for include file sys/wait.h
> -- Looking for include file sys/wait.h - found
> -- Looking for include file unistd.h
> -- Looking for include file unistd.h - found
> -- Looking for include file utmp.h
> -- Looking for include file utmp.h - found
> -- Looking for include file wctype.h
> -- Looking for include file wctype.h - found
> -- Check if the system is big endian
> -- Searching 16 bit integer
> -- Looking for stddef.h
> -- Looking for stddef.h - found
> -- Check size of unsigned short
> -- Check size of unsigned short - done
> -- Using unsigned short
> -- Check if the system is big endian - little endian
> CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:776 (target_compile_definitions):
>   Cannot specify compile definitions for imported target "PkgConfig::GLIB2".

sudo apt install libglib2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev-bin

Should fix this.


> 
> 
> CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:782 (target_compile_definitions):
>   Cannot specify compile definitions for imported target "PkgConfig::GTK3".
> 

You will probably have to upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 to fix this.

> 
> -- Performing Test standard_math_library_linked_to_automatically
> -- Performing Test standard_math_library_linked_to_automatically - Success
> -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
> See also "/home/tom/dev/build-gnucash-5.0/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
> See also "/home/tom/dev/build-gnucash-5.0/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".
> ----------------------------------------
> 
> I've checked all of the required deps in the README.dependencies and
> believe I have them all.  I've googled around and I don't see any answers.
> Has anyone else run into a similar error building on other platforms?
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