Hi, Gary Bilkus <m...@gary.bilkus.com> writes:
> Anyway, I've made some more progress. The -no-undefined problem is > caused because more recent versions of gcc apparently don't understand > that flag, and don't ignore it but just fail. So although you need to > pass it to libtool, you mustn't pass it direct to gcc.any > more. Unfortunately, that means that adding -no-undefined to LDFLAGS > causes lots of the tests in configure to go wrong with compilation > errors, and it just happens that the libxml one is the first which is > mandatory. > > I did a very kludgy workaround by removing -no-undefined from > configure.ac, running configure, and then running a script to add > -no-undefined back into every resulting Makefile. I imagine there's a > cleaner fix somewhere to put the flag into libtool only, but I haven't > yet found it. The cleaner fix would be a configure test that tests whether GCC will accept the -no-undefined flag and add it (or not) based on the tests. > Anyway, when you do that, it starts to compile the app, and the next > problem is that some of the code files fail to compile. > Specifically: > libqof/qof/guid.c and backend/xml/sixtp-utils.c > both fail with compiler warnings about %llu formats in strings. There > appears to be a bug in the version of gcc (4.8.1) as downloaded for > mingw cd . which treats these formats as invalid > even though they aren't. Then because -Werror is set, the compile fails. > The solution for the moment was to edit the Makefile to remove the > -Wall from those files. They then recompile happily. Actually, this is a valid error message. On 64-bit platforms you don't want to use %llu for gint64 because it's only a "long", not "long long". Instead you want to use "%lu". The real fix here would be to use G_GUINT64_FORMAT instead of "lu" or "llu". > The only other source file issue is in > gnome-gnc-split-reg.h > where we get the error: expected identifier before numeric constant DELETE, > A bit of trial and error got this to go away by adding > #undef DELETE > #undef DUPLICATE > on line 116, but to be honest I'm not entirely sure what's going on > here yet. > > After all that, a make followed by make install seems to complete, > although with lots of > libtool: link: warning : 'c/soft/mongw/lib/lib.....la seems to be moved > warnings coming up. These warnings are normal and happen on all platforms. You can safely ignore them. > Unfortunately, after all that, I can't get it to run. > If I try to start it from /c/soft/gnucash/inst/bin there are lots of > missing dlls, which all appear to be dotted around in other places. > If I copy everything into a single directory and try to run I get > Error: Unspecified fatal error encountered, aborting..... > > And that's as far as I've got. > Gary AFAIK you cannot run GnuCash from the install directory on Windows. Even on other platforms it's hard to do. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warl...@mit.edu PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel