[GNC] cannot build gnucash 5.14 and later

[Stephen M. Butler]

What happens if you do: sudo apt-get install *libboost*-all-dev

It should tell  you that it is already installed.  If not, then that is 
part of the problem.




On 6/28/26 19:08, Mark Sattolo wrote:
> Have built my own executables on Linux Mint for a while now.
> No problems through gnucash 5.13.
> But with gnucash 5.14 and subsequent the build now fails on running 'ninja'
> or 'make'.
> I just stuck with gnucash 5.13 for the past while but now it feels like I'm
> falling too far behind the newer versions.
>
> The problem seems to be something to do with linking libboost properly? But
> the only solutions I can find online recommend tinkering with
> CMakeLists.txt to specify explicit linking of the libboost 'system' and
> 'filesystem' modules... but it doesn't seem like I should have to do that
> to get it to build. And I'm not familiar enough with CMake to figure out
> exactly what I should do anyway.
> Not sure why there is a problem since 5.14 when it went fine for all the
> previous versions.
>
> I include my printouts showing that the gnucash build-dep is fine. That
> libboost is there. And the actual error reports from 'make'.
>
> Anyone know what has happened and how to fix it?
>
> thanks,
>
> *Mark*
>
>
> *epistemik at gmail.com<epistemik at gmail.com>*
>
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