Re: RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-05-07 Thread Geert Janssens
On Friday 02 May 2014 14:55:42 John Ralls wrote: then I get the dreaded unrecognized “l” format error, What is the dreaded unrecognized l format error ? I have never seen it on my WinXP test system. In which step do you get this ? It’s that the ancient msvcrt.dll used by MinGW doesn’t

Re: RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-05-07 Thread John Ralls
On May 7, 2014, at 8:54 AM, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: On Friday 02 May 2014 14:55:42 John Ralls wrote: then I get the dreaded unrecognized “l” format error, What is the dreaded unrecognized l format error ? I have never seen it on my WinXP test system. In which step

Re: RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-05-06 Thread Geert Janssens
On Friday 02 May 2014 14:55:42 John Ralls wrote: On May 2, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: On Friday 02 May 2014 11:06:14 John Ralls wrote: The HH installation check is still failing for me, as is the installation. I ran it by hand and got it to install

Re: RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-05-02 Thread John Ralls
On May 1, 2014, at 10:21 AM, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: On Thursday 01 May 2014 15:55:07 Geert Janssens wrote: Thank you for my feedback. It's nice to hear my effort is appreciated. Sometimes I appear to write utter nonsense... Rereading the above I of course wanted

Re: RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-05-02 Thread Geert Janssens
On Friday 02 May 2014 11:06:14 John Ralls wrote: The HH installation check is still failing for me, as is the installation. I ran it by hand and got it to install in c:\gcdev, but the check fails anyway: I suspect it will fail because the html help install step runs pexports and dlltool on

Re: RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-05-02 Thread John Ralls
On May 2, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: On Friday 02 May 2014 11:06:14 John Ralls wrote: The HH installation check is still failing for me, as is the installation. I ran it by hand and got it to install in c:\gcdev, but the check fails anyway: I

Re: RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-05-01 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 01 May 2014 15:55:07 Geert Janssens wrote: Thank you for my feedback. It's nice to hear my effort is appreciated. Your suggestion to move the installation of html help to the top is very useful. I'll check if this is possible and if so will make the necessary changes. I have

Re: RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-05-01 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 01 May 2014 15:55:07 Geert Janssens wrote: Thank you for my feedback. It's nice to hear my effort is appreciated. Sometimes I appear to write utter nonsense... Rereading the above I of course wanted to say Thank you for *your* feedback. Oh well... Too many distractions... Geert

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-29 Thread Geert Janssens
On Monday 28 April 2014 14:23:55 John Ralls wrote: 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

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-29 Thread Geert Janssens
Update: with the changes pushed today the build server should be able to create the nightly builds in the new environment. I emulated a build server locally by running daily_build.bat on my system. Tag builds need some more work. Regards, Geert ___

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-29 Thread Wm Tarr
On 29/04/2014 12:10, Geert Janssens wrote: Update: with the changes pushed today the build server should be able to create the nightly builds in the new environment. I emulated a build server locally by running daily_build.bat on my system. I downloaded bootstrap_win_dev.vbs earlier this

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-29 Thread Geert Janssens
Thanks for testing. Svn shouldn't have been in there anymore. We're not using it for gnucash development anymore. The quickest way to get past this point in to remove the line add_step inst_git from install.sh I'll push a complete fix in a minute. Geert On Tuesday 29 April 2014 15:01:00 Wm

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-29 Thread Geert Janssens
On Tuesday 29 April 2014 16:05:31 Geert Janssens wrote: Thanks for testing. Svn shouldn't have been in there anymore. We're not using it for gnucash development anymore. The quickest way to get past this point in to remove the line add_step inst_git from install.sh I'll push a complete

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-29 Thread Wm Tarr
On 29/04/2014 15:16, Geert Janssens wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2014 16:05:31 Geert Janssens wrote: Thanks for testing. Svn shouldn't have been in there anymore. We're not using it for gnucash development anymore. The quickest way to get past this point in to remove the line add_step inst_git

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-29 Thread Geert Janssens
On Tuesday 29 April 2014 15:34:29 Wm Tarr wrote: On 29/04/2014 15:16, Geert Janssens wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2014 16:05:31 Geert Janssens wrote: Thanks for testing. Svn shouldn't have been in there anymore. We're not using it for gnucash development anymore. The quickest way to get

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-29 Thread Wm Tarr
On 28/04/2014 21:01, John Ralls wrote: On Apr 28, 2014, at 12:27 PM, Christian Stimming christ...@cstimming.de wrote: 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

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-29 Thread John Ralls
On Apr 29, 2014, at 1:14 PM, Wm Tarr wm.t...@gmail.com wrote: On 28/04/2014 21:01, John Ralls wrote: On Apr 28, 2014, at 12:27 PM, Christian Stimming christ...@cstimming.de wrote: Am Montag, 28. April 2014, 18:56:48 schrieb Geert Janssens: For wild, not even in the oven yet, for the very

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: 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: 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: 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: 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