I'm sorry I didn't mention this more clearly. The documentation is not
updated yet. So the information in the README file is still for the
old build process.
This is how I think you should proceed (I'm assuming you stick with
the default path names):
- clear every trace of the previous gnucash build environment from
your system, including mingw and msys.
- download this file:
https://raw.github.com/gjanssens/gnucash/mingw-rebasing/packaging/win32/bootstrap_win_dev.vbs
This comes from my git repository, but you don't need to have git
installed on your system just yet. The top of the file gives a bit
more information on what it will do (install minimal mingw, msys, git
and clone the gnucash repository).
- *intermediate step* edit the file and change the repos url in line
44 to:
REPOS_URL = "git://github.com:gjanssens/gnucash.git"
This is only necessary because my work is not in the default gnucash
repository yet.
- save the file
- double-click to execute the file. It will open a console window in
which you can follow its progress. Wait until it finishes.
- at this point, you should have a new directory c:\soft with at least
directories mingw and gnucash.git. Perhaps also a git-1.7.10 directory
if git was not yet installed on your system (or maybe even in that case).
- *intermediate steps* (no longer necessary when my work is integrated
in the main gnucash git repository)
* open a git bash window on the newly downloaded repository
you can do this via a windows explorer and then right-click
on the directory of the repository
* track and checkout my mingw branch
git branch -t mingw origin/mingw-rebasing
git checkout mingw
- now open an msys console. The bootstrap script currently doesn't
create a softlink on the desktop yet, so you will have to navigate to
c:\soft\mingw\msys\1.0\ and double-click msys.bat in there.
- within that console, start the gnucash build:
* cd /c/soft/gnucash.git/packaging/win32
* ./install.sh
With the current state of the branch this should work until the
gnucash build step. There I run into no-undefined warnings I haven't
had time to figure out yet.
Can you try these steps and let me know how it goes ? By the way I'm
open to patches to either the build, the README file or other
improvements on this subject :)
Geert
Thanks Geert.
I've tried as you suggested. There's one typo above I think
REPOS_URL = "git://github.com:gjanssens/gnucash.git"
didn't work for me, but git://github.com/gjanssens/gnucash.git
did.
The everything seems to go fine until I get:
############################################################
### isocodes
############################################################
--2013-12-23 19:48:02--
http://pkg-isocodes.alioth.debian.org/downloads/iso-cod
es-3.34.tar.bz2
Resolving pkg-isocodes.alioth.debian.org... 5.153.231.21
Connecting to pkg-isocodes.alioth.debian.org|5.153.231.21|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2013-12-23 19:48:03 ERROR 404: Not Found.
I discovered that the versiou available on the website is now 3.49 and
an .xz file. So I updated custom.sh
ISOCODES_URL="http://pkg-isocodes.alioth.debian.org/downloads/iso-codes-3.49.tar.xz";
and edited functions.sh to include at line 92:
*.tar.xz)
tar -xJpf $LAST_FILE -C $_EXTRACT_UDIR
_PACK_DIR=$(tar -Jtf $LAST_FILE 2>/dev/null | head -1)
;;
and carried on....
Next it refused to install html help because a newer version was already
on the machine..... but that didn't sound too serious.
So it carried on until
extracting libdbi-0.8.4.tar.gz ... done
....
Hunk #2 FAILED at 154
1 out of 4 hunks FAILED....
Will look further later.
Gary
So I assume something's moved....
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