Hi John, My apologies for my misinterpretation of why Google recommended that googlemock and googletest not be built as shared libraries. I now understand the problem with a lot of conditional code and different compile flags and on the build for a calling program and the libraries much better.
It was my first experience with googletest when I started compiling v3. I found it very difficult to find online information about setting up googletest and the info on the README on Github was buried in a subdirectory for v1.8.0. I also didn't pick up in v1.7.0 that building googlemock also built the gtest libraries as well initially. My excuse is that I was skimming through a lot of information and some misinformation online at the time. I only really began to follow what setting up GTEST_ROOT and GMOCK_ROOT did when I started looking inside GncAddTest.cmake. I must confess to finding a lot of the information I found to be terse and often assuming a depth of acquired knowledge of the history of the package development I didn't have. I suspect many of us now building Gnucash3 will be in the same class of knowing enough to be dangerous and to have a go but not yet having the depth of knowledge you and Geert and the other developers have acquired the hard way over time. I was left with the libraries from a previous build after having removed the sources so I could not use sudo make uninstall to remove them. The Linux Mint distro package also had an uninstall from the menu which normally removed them but for some reason didn't this time. It is probably an obvious step when you are a developer and regularly build the program, but not so much to those of us who only build it occasionally and are lower down on the learning curve. I will have a look at the README and combine that with my experience and see if I can try to make the Build#Ubuntu section a bit clearer for us relative newbies to development. Thanks David ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-Dev-f1435356.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
