> On Jun 28, 2026, at 19:08, Mark Sattolo <[email protected]> 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?
Mark, libbboost-all-dev installs the liibboost dev packages but not the library packages. Libboost-filesystem-1.83-dev installs /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so <http://libboost_filesystem.so/> but libboost-filesystem-1.83.0 installs /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so <http://libboost_filesystem.so/>.1.83.0. The former—without the version number—is typically just a symlink to the latter. Do you have both files installed and if not is libboost_filesystem.so <http://libboost_filesystem.so/> a dynamic library or a symlink? If that checks out OK, grep boost in CMakeCache.txt and run ldd on ${builddir}/lib/libgnc-core-utils. <http://libgnc-core-utils.co/>so to make sure that the right version of libboost_filesystem is found (CMakeCache.txt) and linked to libgnc-core-utils (ldd output). If *that* checks out then run nm on libboost_filesystem.so <http://libboost_filesystem.so/> and see if those missing symbols are present. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
