Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-28 Thread Geert Janssens
This weekend I have spent more time on getting the Windows build running with more recent mingw compilers (gcc 4.8). This is a continuation of the work I have started in December last year. Current status: - I have forked packaging/win32 into a separate directory with the clear goal of

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-28 Thread Geert Janssens
I just noticed I lost a few patches outside the packaging/win32 directory by setting up an independent repository. I'll add those to the gnucash directory shortly. Geert On Monday 28 April 2014 11:09:39 Geert Janssens wrote: This weekend I have spent more time on getting the Windows build

Re: switching to C++ compiling by -xc++ (was: gnucash master: Multiple changes pushed)

2014-04-28 Thread John Ralls
On Apr 27, 2014, at 7:58 PM, Mike Alexander m...@umich.edu wrote: On Apr 27, 2014, at 5:15 PM, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: However, I don’t think changing files one by one is wise: It will result in libraries with objects compiled with different compilers, and I worry that that

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-28 Thread John Ralls
On Apr 28, 2014, at 2:09 AM, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: This weekend I have spent more time on getting the Windows build running with more recent mingw compilers (gcc 4.8). This is a continuation of the work I have started in December last year. Current status: - I

Re: Firefox hogging processor sometimes on startup

2014-04-28 Thread Derek Atkins
I believe you sent this to the wrong list? -derek Colin Law clan...@gmail.com writes: I have mentioned this before, sometimes when FF starts up it functions ok but consumes masses of CPU, eventually hogging the whole machine. I can close FF but the process does not die, I have to kill it. I

Re: switching to C++ compiling by -xc++ (was: gnucash master: Multiple changes pushed)

2014-04-28 Thread Mike Alexander
--On April 28, 2014 7:47:07 AM -0700 John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: I'll make gnucash-bin.cpp after that. Why not do it first? It needs to be done sooner or later and that might avoid some of the explosions. Mike ___

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-28 Thread Christian Stimming (mobil)
On 28. April 2014 16:52:03 MESZ, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: For wild, not even in the oven yet, for the very long term, how about build GC native in MSVC? This isn't as weird as it sounds: I've been able to compile and run the cutecash experiment in msvc successfully, at the time.

Re: switching to C++ compiling by -xc++ (was: gnucash master: Multiple changes pushed)

2014-04-28 Thread John Ralls
On Apr 28, 2014, at 8:51 AM, Mike Alexander m...@umich.edu wrote: --On April 28, 2014 7:47:07 AM -0700 John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: I'll make gnucash-bin.cpp after that. Why not do it first? It needs to be done sooner or later and that might avoid some of the explosions. I

error-on-warning default

2014-04-28 Thread Mike Alexander
--On April 28, 2014 8:58:36 AM -0400 Geert Janssens gjanss...@code.gnucash.org wrote: commit 06e7199bda8a901891f821f8479da24be20ed6d7 Author: Gary Bilkus m...@gary.bilkus.com Date: Fri Jan 17 13:23:02 2014 + Win32: Fix configure.ac to cope with new gcc not understanding no-undefined

Official Ubuntu GnuCash package segfaults on Ubuntu 14.04

2014-04-28 Thread Herbert Mühlburger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi folks, I just installed the latest stable version of GnuCash on Ubuntu 14.04 using apt-get install gnucash. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+source/gnucash Running GnuCash results in a segmentation fault. In the attachment you can see the

Re: Official Ubuntu GnuCash package segfaults on Ubuntu 14.04

2014-04-28 Thread Herbert Mühlburger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Some additional information on what might create this issue: - the version of libdbi-dev on Ubuntu 13.10 was 0.8.4-6 - the version of libdbi-dev on Ubuntu 14.04 is 0.9.0-1 There are some deprecated functions which also prevent GnuCash from

Re: error-on-warning default

2014-04-28 Thread Geert Janssens
On Monday 28 April 2014 12:05:15 Mike Alexander wrote: --On April 28, 2014 8:58:36 AM -0400 Geert Janssens gjanss...@code.gnucash.org wrote: commit 06e7199bda8a901891f821f8479da24be20ed6d7 Author: Gary Bilkus m...@gary.bilkus.com Date: Fri Jan 17 13:23:02 2014 + Win32: Fix

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-28 Thread Geert Janssens
On Monday 28 April 2014 07:52:03 John Ralls wrote: On Apr 28, 2014, at 2:09 AM, Geert Janssens janssens- ge...@telenet.be wrote: This weekend I have spent more time on getting the Windows build running with more recent mingw compilers (gcc 4.8). This is a continuation of the work I have

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-28 Thread Geert Janssens
On Monday 28 April 2014 17:54:15 Christian Stimming wrote: On 28. April 2014 16:52:03 MESZ, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: For wild, not even in the oven yet, for the very long term, how about build GC native in MSVC? This isn't as weird as it sounds: I've been able to compile and run

Re: switching to C++ compiling by -xc++ (was: gnucash master: Multiple changes pushed)

2014-04-28 Thread Mike Alexander
--On April 28, 2014 9:04:06 AM -0700 John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: On Apr 28, 2014, at 8:51 AM, Mike Alexander m...@umich.edu wrote: --On April 28, 2014 7:47:07 AM -0700 John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: I'll make gnucash-bin.cpp after that. Why not do it first? It needs to

Re: switching to C++ compiling by -xc++ (was: gnucash master: Multiple changes pushed)

2014-04-28 Thread John Ralls
On Apr 28, 2014, at 10:55 AM, Mike Alexander m...@umich.edu wrote: --On April 28, 2014 9:04:06 AM -0700 John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: On Apr 28, 2014, at 8:51 AM, Mike Alexander m...@umich.edu wrote: --On April 28, 2014 7:47:07 AM -0700 John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote:

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-28 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Montag, 28. April 2014, 18:56:48 schrieb Geert Janssens: For wild, not even in the oven yet, for the very long term, how about build GC native in MSVC? : :) Would require a copy of MSVC of course. Yeah, but this doesn't have to be costly: For our purposes, the free (as in beer) Express

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-28 Thread Geert Janssens
On Monday 28 April 2014 07:52:03 John Ralls wrote: On Apr 28, 2014, at 2:09 AM, Geert Janssens janssens- ge...@telenet.be wrote: This weekend I have spent more time on getting the Windows build running with more recent mingw compilers (gcc 4.8). This is a continuation of the work I have

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-28 Thread John Ralls
On Apr 28, 2014, at 1:10 PM, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: I don't know if you have started this already but meanwhile I found a couple of bugs still (I pushed my most recent fix about 45 mins ago). You may want to pull my most recent changes, remove the generated