Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-16 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
I haven't done much work on Gnucash on Linux or Windows but I was able to get it to compile under Windows by following the instructions on this page: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows There are a few manual steps and then a script that downloads and installs a bunch of tools and

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-16 Thread Andreas Köhler
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 16.03.2008, 07:38 -0500 schrieb Mike or Penny Novack: I haven't done much work on Gnucash on Linux or Windows but I was able to get it to compile under Windows by following the instructions on this page: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows There are a few

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-16 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
Andreas, I think we are getting somewhere Please take a look at http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/browser/gnucash/branches/gda-dev2/packaging/win32 So I would want to get the compiler (and presumably including a link-editor) here? This is achieved by using the mingw32/gcc compiler

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-16 Thread Andreas Köhler
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 16.03.2008, 09:28 -0500 schrieb Mike or Penny Novack: Andreas, I think we are getting somewhere Please take a look at http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/browser/gnucash/branches/gda-dev2/packaging/win32 So I would want to get the compiler (and presumably

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-16 Thread karimb
Mike, You can download a copy of vim for windows from http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc I also like textpad which has syntax highlighting for source code files. -- Original message -- From: Mike or Penny Novack [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andreas, I think we are

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-16 Thread Andreas Köhler
Hi, Am Samstag, den 15.03.2008, 17:57 -0400 schrieb Karim B: Mike or Penny Novack wrote: Related to getting started. (now that my post fire life is more or less back to normal -- sorry for the long delay) I haven't ever done any work in the Windows environment before. Which means I

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-16 Thread Charles Day
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 9:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike, You can download a copy of vim for windows from http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc I also like textpad which has syntax highlighting for source code files. MSYS comes with the non-GUI form of vim, I believe. I just type vi

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-16 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
Thanks everybody (keep up with suggestions) I will probably want a C for Windows sort of book if such exists. Not how to program in general but how to interact with objects of type window. Any ideas? I have written some* C, but that was in a Linux environment and I wasn't (yet) interacting

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-15 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
Related to getting started. (now that my post fire life is more or less back to normal -- sorry for the long delay) I haven't ever done any work in the Windows environment before. Which means I don't have a set of development tools. Anybody willing to make some suggestions? What open source

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-15 Thread Karim B
Mike or Penny Novack wrote: Related to getting started. (now that my post fire life is more or less back to normal -- sorry for the long delay) I haven't ever done any work in the Windows environment before. Which means I don't have a set of development tools. Anybody willing to make some

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-05 Thread karimb
Ok, I can now build the gda-dev2 branch on my system. Thanks for the help on that. I then ran the dist.sh script to build the setup.exe, I had to add the following to the prepare function: _LIBGDA_UDIR=`unix_path $LIBGDA_DIR` to get dist.sh to run. I installed the setup.exe and gnucash

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-05 Thread Nathan Buchanan
Mar 2008 06:40:11 + Subject: Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2 On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Karim B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derek Atkins wrote: Try checking out the gda-dev2 branch in the appropriate place manually. -derek Quoting Karim Bahai [EMAIL

building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-04 Thread Karim Bahai
Hi all, I can successfully build gnucash using the install.sh script file on my XP system. Now I want to try building the gda-dev2 branch as well. I grabbed everything from the packaging/win32 directory in the gda-dev2 branch, and placed it in the c:\soft\packaging directory. When I run the

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-04 Thread Nathan Buchanan
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Nathan Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Karim! You'll have to add the following line to your custom.sh REPOS_URL=http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/branches/gda-dev2; And you will also need to make sure that the packaging\win32 directory you checked

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-04 Thread Derek Atkins
Try checking out the gda-dev2 branch in the appropriate place manually. -derek Quoting Karim Bahai [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I can successfully build gnucash using the install.sh script file on my XP system. Now I want to try building the gda-dev2 branch as well. I grabbed everything

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-04 Thread Karim B
Derek Atkins wrote: Try checking out the gda-dev2 branch in the appropriate place manually. -derek Quoting Karim Bahai [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I can successfully build gnucash using the install.sh script file on my XP system. Now I want to try building the gda-dev2 branch as well.

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-04 Thread Nathan Buchanan
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Karim B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derek Atkins wrote: Try checking out the gda-dev2 branch in the appropriate place manually. -derek Quoting Karim Bahai [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I can successfully build gnucash using the install.sh script file