On Sep 7, 2013, at 1:43 AM, Geert Janssens <janssens-ge...@telenet.be> wrote:
> On Thursday 05 September 2013 17:10:40 John Ralls wrote: >> On Sep 5, 2013, at 2:07 PM, Geert Janssens <janssens-ge...@telenet.be> > wrote: >>> I'm currently reworking the build scripts on Windows. My goal is to >>> leverage the work done by the mingw project to a maximum. In >>> particular I'd like to use their installer (mingw-get) to simplify >>> setting up an environment in which to build gnucash on Windows. >>> >>> mingw-get is not compatible with a cross-compilation environment >>> however. So I was wondering how many people are actually building >>> gnucash for Windows via a cross-compiler ? >>> >>> My current impression is that the cross-compilation set up has >>> slowly >>> been gathering dust. I may be wrong though. Hence the query... >> >> Great! It would be nice to get it working with more recent versions of >> MinGW. >> >> Cross-compilation implies that it's on a system with working Python, >> so one could use jhbuild... in which case, why use the rather clunky >> shell scripts? >> > There are Windows installers available for python (1). Is python really > the only missing piece to get jhbuild running on Windows ? If so that > would indeed be an opportunity to look into jhbuild instead of our own > scripts. I don't have enough experience with jhbuild though to spend my > time on this. I'd be more than interested to hear your findings if you > can play with it though! > > I assume that we would still need to set up a functional mingw > environment which is then used by jhbuild ? Yes, there are, but the "official" python doesn't seem to get along well with MinGW/MSys, so jhbuild doesn't work. I haven't tried ActiveState, and like you I have other priorities, not to mention a general loathing of MSWin, that keep me from wanting to spend more than a couple of days a year on messing with it. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
