> On Aug 26, 2019, at 1:49 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be>
> wrote:
>
> Op zaterdag 24 augustus 2019 19:40:06 CEST schreef Matthew Forbis:
>> I was running gnucash directly from the inst directory and not creating an
>> installer first. This explanation makes sense.
>>
>
> There you go.
>
> It would be nice though to be able to run directly from the inst directory
> while debugging as it saves time not having to recreate a bundle for each
> iteration.
>
> Frankly I believe this shows how little actual development really happens on
> Windows. Because of that the development experience is not really optimized
> on
> that platform. With you actively doing so, it may be helpful to share your
> experiences so we may make it more attractive for other Windows oriented
> contributors.
Has anyone tried Windows Subsystem for Linux
(https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10)? That might be a
less painful development environment for Windows users at least in the short
term.
Longer term I think we need to figure out how to make GnuCash buildable in
Visual Studio. Recent releases provide for a Clang toolchain as well as the
standard MSVC++ one. We might be able to create a build environment combined
with vcpkg (https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg) that would be more stable,
offer a lower barrier to entry, and generate windows-understandable debug info.
Regards,
John Ralls
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