Hello, I have run into about two more errors. It has to do with some missing path and not identifying the right version of m4.
I queried the version of m4 from the MSYS console and it seems ok. It is GNU M4 1.4.7. Please find the the log inlined below. Build Starting at Thu Jan 13 20:21:31 WCAST 2011 ############################################################ ### Wget ############################################################ already installed. skipping. ############################################################ ### MSYS DTK ############################################################ msys dtk already installed. skipping. ############################################################ ### Unzip ############################################################ unzip already installed. skipping. ############################################################ ### MinGW ############################################################ mingw already installed. skipping. ############################################################ ### RegEx ############################################################ regex already installed. skipping. ############################################################ ### Readline ############################################################ readline already installed. skipping. ############################################################ ### ActivePerl (intltool) ############################################################ ActivePerl already installed. skipping. ############################################################ ### MinGW-Utils ############################################################ mingw-utils already installed. skipping. ############################################################ ### Autotools ############################################################ Extracting autoconf-2.63.tar.bz2 ... done Extracting automake-1.10.2.tar.bz2 ... done building autoconf... checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether /bin/sh -n is known to work... yes checking for expr... /bin/expr checking for GNU M4 that supports accurate traces... /bin/m4 checking how m4 supports trace files... --debugfile checking for perl... /c/soft/active-perl/ActivePerl/perl/bin/perl checking for emacs... no checking for xemacs... no checking for emacs... no checking where .elc files should go... ${datadir}/emacs/site-lisp checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking whether make is case sensitive... yes configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating tests/Makefile config.status: creating tests/atlocal config.status: creating man/Makefile config.status: creating lib/emacs/Makefile config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating doc/Makefile config.status: creating lib/Makefile config.status: creating lib/Autom4te/Makefile config.status: creating lib/autoscan/Makefile config.status: creating lib/m4sugar/Makefile config.status: creating lib/autoconf/Makefile config.status: creating lib/autotest/Makefile config.status: creating bin/Makefile config.status: executing tests/atconfig commands make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/c/soft/tmp/autoconf-2.63' Making all in bin make[2]: Entering directory `/c/soft/tmp/autoconf-2.63/bin' rm -f autom4te autom4te.tmp srcdir=''; \ test -f ./autom4te.in || srcdir=./; \ sed -e 's|@SHELL[@]|/bin/sh|g' -e 's|@PERL[@]|/c/soft/active-perl/ActivePerl/perl/bin/perl|g' -e 's|@bindir[@]|/c/soft/autotools/bin|g' -e 's|@datadir[@]|/c/soft/autotools/share/autoconf|g' -e 's|@prefix[@]|/c/soft/autotools|g' -e 's|@autoconf-name[@]|'`echo autoconf | sed 's,x,x,'`'|g' -e 's|@autoheader-name[@]|'`echo autoheader | sed 's,x,x,'`'|g' -e 's|@autom4te-name[@]|'`echo autom4te | sed 's,x,x,'`'|g' -e 's|@M4[@]|/bin/m4|g' -e 's|@M4_DEBUGFILE[@]|--debugfile|g' -e 's|@AWK[@]|gawk|g' -e 's|@RELEASE_YEAR[@]|'`sed 's/^\([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\).*/\1/;q' ../ChangeLog`'|g' -e 's|@VERSION[@]|2.63|g' -e 's|@PACKAGE_NAME[@]|GNU Autoconf|g' -e 's|@configure_input[@]|Generated from autom4te.in; do not edit by hand.|g' ${srcdir}autom4te.in >autom4te.tmp chmod +x autom4te.tmp chmod a-w autom4te.tmp mv autom4te.tmp autom4te autom4te_perllibdir='..'/lib AUTOM4TE_CFG='../lib/autom4te.cfg' ../bin/autom4te -B '..'/lib -B '..'/lib --language M4sh --cache '' --melt ./autoconf.as -o autoconf.in make[2]: Leaving directory `/c/soft/tmp/autoconf-2.63/bin' make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/soft/tmp/autoconf-2.63' -- View this message in context: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/compiling-gnucash-on-windows-configure-error-perl-is-not-found-tp3215410p3216532.html Sent from the GnuCash - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel