Building
From GnuCash
Get the latest sources from Subversion and examine the README.svn file for notes on compiling gnucash, and the HACKING file for notes on hacking the code.
Here are the basic steps one might end up taking:
1. change to gnucash directory
cd gnucash
2. generate the configure script
./autogen.sh
3. look at configure options
./configure --help
4. run configure
./configure --prefix=/opt/gnucash \
--enable-debug --enable-doxygen \
--enable-error-on-warning --enable-compile-warnings \
[--enable-ofx [...]]
5. compile and install
make make install
6. run
/opt/gnucash/bin/gnucash
Contents
Required Packages
See the README.dependencies file for library dependency notes.
Debian
On Debian, the packages you'll probably need are (among many others):
libgnomeui-dev libofx-dev libgsf-1-dev libgtkhtml3.2-dev (3.6 or 3.8 will also do) libgwrapguile-dev OR guile-g-wrap (It compiles but doesn't run without this: "<unnamed port>: no code for module (g-wrap gw standard)")
Gentoo
Gentoos instructions can be found on Gnucash-svn installation on Gentoo.
Dapper Flight 5
On an fresh install of Ubuntu/Dapper, do the following to be able to compile trunk gnucash:
Install needed packages
Give the command below and let Dapper sort out which extra packages are needed.
sudo apt-get install libgnomeui-dev libofx-dev libgsf-1-dev \ libgtkhtml3.8-dev guile-g-wrap libltdl3-dev g-wrap doxygen \ libgsf-gnome-1-dev automake1.9 texinfo build-essential intltool \ libtool subversion
Create development tree
mkdir -p $HOME/development/gnucash mkdir -p $HOME/unstable/gnucash
Check out gnucash trunk
cd $HOME/development/gnucash svn checkout http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk gnucash
Compile gnucash
cd gnucash ./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=$HOME/unstable/gnucash \ --enable-debug --enable-doxygen \ --enable-error-on-warning --enable-compile-warnings
make all install
Install the Perl Finance::Quote module so we can fetch stock quotes
cd $HOME/unstable/gnucash/bin sudo ./gnc-fq-update
Start newly compiled gnucash
./gnucash
