TLDR: Is there an up to date list of strictly versioned distro+dependencies that is known to work for building/running the stable branch? I am happy to use any distro as I'm trying to build a docker container to build/test.
Details: It seems the build instructions are a bit of a mess currently. To start in the README in github: > Developing GnuCash > ------------------ > Before you start developing GnuCash, you should do the following: > 1. Read https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development > 2. Look over the doxygen-generated documentation at > https://code.gnucash.org/docs/MASTER/ or > https://code.gnucash.org/docs/MAINT/ doxygen doc links are both broken. Following https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development: A general description of the tools used to configure and build GnuCash is > given in Build tools <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Build_Tools>. This lists Make, Ninja, CMake, and Autotools, but what min/max versions? A listing of dependencies is available at Dependencies > <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Dependencies>. This only lists up to version 4.11 Detailed instructions for building GnuCash on Linux distributions can be > found on Building On Linux. Installing the Build Tools > <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Install_Build_Tools>; > There we find: build-essential make cmake build-essential autoconf automake libtool m4 But again with no dist/version restrictions mentioned. There is a lot of wordage in the docs cautioning about all the differences between distros/packages, but no central source for which distro/version + dependencies/versions is known to work. Installing Dependencies > <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Installing_Dependencies>. Up to date information on the dependencies may be obtained from: - the Dependencies <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Dependencies> wiki page; This again points to the info up to version 4.11 GitHub GnuCash master branch README.dependencies > <https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/master/README.dependencies>; or > This points to a file committed 8 years ago, though it does have explicit version tags for dependencies! :D sudo apt install libtool libltdl-dev > sudo apt install icu-devtools libicu-dev > sudo apt install libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-dev #glib2 > v2.40.0 > sudo apt install libboost-all-dev # boost > 1.50.0 - requires > locale and regex built with ICU support > sudo apt install guile-2.0 guile-2.0-dev # guile >=2.0.0 > sudo apt install swig2.0 # swig >2.0.10 - swig3.0 on > some systems > # not required if building > from tarball, > # but required if building > from a git clone > sudo apt install libxml2 libxml++2.6-dev libxml2-utils > sudo apt install libxslt1.1 libxslt1-dev > sudo apt install xsltproc > sudo apt install texinfo # required for makeinfo > sudo apt install libsecret-1-0 libsecret-1-dev > # Only use the next 2 lines if you have not installed [[Google_Test | > Google Test]] already. > sudo apt install libgtest-dev # >=1.7.0 > sudo apt install google-mock # 1.8.0 installs googlemock > in a subdirectory of gtest > sudo apt install libgtk-3-dev libgtk-3-bin # gtk+3.0 >= 3.22.30 > sudo apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev # > > webkit2gtk-3.0 Many of these are out of date on Ubuntu 22.04: > Package 'guile-2.0' has no installation candidate > Unable to locate package guile-2.0-dev > Couldn't find any package by glob 'guile-2.0-dev' > Couldn't find any package by regex 'guile-2.0-dev' > Package 'swig2.0' has no installation candidate > Version '1.8.0' for 'google-mock' was not found Building and Installing the GnuCash Program > The easy way to install most of GnuCash's dependencies is to use your > package manager's build dependencies feature as root: apt-get build-dep gnucash # Debian based > Returns: > Reading package lists... Done E: Unable to find a source package for gnucash What about this arch based Dockerfile? https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/5ce3a9dd1d88c4717a7718c6d556b1235ac7536c/util/ci/actions/archlinux-test/Dockerfile Is this enough to build and run or is this just enough for the ci tests? Is no one maintaining a Docker Image/file for repeatable builds? How are releases/flatpak builds maintained? I'll keep trial/error installing everything to an Ubuntu 22.04 docker base image to see how far I can get in the meantime. Thanks in advance!
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