So, after jhbuild completes successfully, is there a trick to getting cmake to
build the gnucash.git module directly?
I’m thinking that would be better way to build for the change/build/test cycle.
I’m trying to run the cmake Ninja generator and have grabbed the cmakeargs
specified from gnucash.modules for gnucash-git but that is not sufficient
because it can’t find the guild/guile executables.
Discovered that the $ENV{PATH} did not contain the …/stable/inst/bin location
where they live but even fixing that did not resolve the problem of
find_program() not finding them, so there must be something more meta going on.
I’d like to run the cmake generator, and build phases directly
From: gnucash-devel <[email protected]> On
Behalf Of Robert Fewell
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 6:03 AM
To: gnucash-devel <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: GnuCash Windows Build Help
I have fixed the two issues I had and have updated my changes here...
https://github.com/Bob-IT/gnucash-on-windows/tree/changes
If you want to try it before it is possibly uploaded then do the following...
Grab setup-mingw64.ps1 from my changes branch and add a 'pause' statement
between lines 392 and 393
Run the script and when you get to the pause, get the other files I have
updated and replace the ones installed in 'gnucash-on-windows.git'
Press enter to continue the script and when finished you should have a valid
Msys2 build environment.
Now just follow the rest of the instructions on building Gnucash and hopefully
it will work.
This environment is set up to work with 'webkitgtk3-2.4.11-999.51' version and
when tested, reports could be opened along with charts.
I did try the 'webkitgtk3-2.4.11-999.6' version which seemed to work in this
environment but charts fail so maybe I have missed a dependency.
There is one more version, 'webkitgtk3-2.4.11-999.7' but the file size is way
bigger than previous versions so not sure if it is correct.
Regards,
Robert
On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 at 10:32, Robert Fewell <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:
I have managed to get a build and install for a current version of the Msys2
install but have two problems to fix.
The first is "OpenSP" does not build, fails on the PO directory I think.
The second is that a patch for "bdw-gc" is not automatically being applied, to
get round this I have deliberately misspelt the file name in gnucash.modules
which allows me to drop to a shell and apply it manually and then continue.
To get round the "OpenSP" build failure for testing I copied a working "OpenSP"
"src" and "build" directory when the build failed and then just rerun the build
phase.
My changes are here, https://github.com/Bob-IT/gnucash-on-windows/tree/changes
For the "OpenSP" build failure, there must be an updated Msys2 file/environment
change but at the moment I can not see it, the following is the failure.
Making all in generic
make[2]: Entering directory
'/c/gcdev64/gnucash/stable/build/OpenSP-1.5.2/generic'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory
'/c/gcdev64/gnucash/stable/build/OpenSP-1.5.2/generic'
Making all in po
make[2]: Entering directory '/c/gcdev64/gnucash/stable/build/OpenSP-1.5.2/po'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target '/config.status', needed by 'Makefile'.
Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/c/gcdev64/gnucash/stable/build/OpenSP-1.5.2/po'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:544: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/c/gcdev64/gnucash/stable/build/OpenSP-1.5.2'
make: *** [Makefile:428: all] Error 2
*** Error during phase build of OpenSP: ########## Error running make -j 13
*** [1/12]
For information, I tried doing the complete build on my September 2024 Msys2
setup and it all worked and that was with an updated gnucash-on-windows and
jhbuild directory.
Regards,
Robert
On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 at 21:41, flywire <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-guide/ch_python_bindings.html
Starting with GnuCash version 2.4 you can write Python scripts to manipulate
your financial data.
Important
The Python extensions are an optional feature which creates additional
dependencies. To be able to use Python scripts, GnuCash must have been built
with the cmake -DWITH_PYTHON=ON … option enabled, otherwise all what follows
won’t work. At present this option is not enabled by default, so if you need
this, you may have to compile GnuCash from source yourself. But some
distributions offer it also as a separate package with a name like
python[version]-GnuCash
There are GnuCash Windows users who want to use the Python bindings which
hasn't really been possible since you removed them from the distribution. Most
users just want access to the binaries and don't care how they are created
though some (including myself) would like to build them if the process was
reasonable. (A GitHub workflow would be terrific.)
Regards
On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 at 14:00, John Ralls <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:
Have you considered setting up a Linux build environment instead? You can
install your distro of choice in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (aka WSL).
Many of them have a package manager target similar to Debian/Ubuntu’s `apt
build-dep gnucash` that sets up everything you need except a code editor. It’s
much less frustrating than the MinGW64 environment.
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