RE: GnuCash on windows - Instructions for giving it a try
During my first attempt I was able to get a bit further into the process but now I am getting stuck during the installation of MinGW. I've used several different mirrors but I get the same error message no matter which one I use. I guess nobody else has ran into this? $ ./install.sh ### Wget already installed. skipping. ### MSYS DTK msys dtk already installed. skipping. ### MinGW !!! Install g++ !!! !!! When asked for an installation path, specify c:\Gnucash\mingw !!! ... Create folder: C:\Gnucash\MinGW Extract: C:\Gnucash\MinGW\installed.ini... 100% Extracting gcc-g++-3.4.2-20040916-1.tar.gz untgz::extract -d 'C:\Gnucash\MinGW' -z 'c:\Gnucash\downloads\gcc-g++-3.4.2-20040916-1.tar.gz' tgz_extract: bad header checksum Error: Failure reading from tarball. Thanks Volker Englisch ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: GnuCash on windows - Instructions for giving it a try
I tried following these instructions. First, I had to change OPENSSL_URL=http://slproweb.com/download/Win32OpenSSL-0_9_8c.exe; into OPENSSL_URL=http://slproweb.com/download/Win32OpenSSL-0_9_8d.exe; in custom.sh After this, the install ran fine for quite a while. However, now I run into this when it reaches Autotools: autom4te_perllibdir='..'/lib AUTOM4TE_CFG='../lib/autom4te.cfg' ../bin/autom4te -B '..'/lib -B '..'/lib --language M4sh --cache '' --melt ./autoconf.as -o autoconf.in Den angivne sti blev ikke fundet. autom4te: need GNU m4 1.4 or later: /bin/m4 (Den angivne sti blev ikke fundet means The specified path was not found - it's Danish...) So it looks like m4 is not installed. However, a bit further up the config logs: checking for gm4... no checking for gnum4... no checking for m4... /bin/m4 I interpret this as m4 actually being found and I can also locate m4.exe under msys' bin dir, displaying version 1.4 when queried. Does anyone have an idea what goes wrong here? Thomas Arildsen P.S. I am a newbie when it comes to running Linux stuff under Windows. I have some Linux experience and quite a bit Windows experience. On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 04:03:05PM +0200, Christian Stimming wrote: / -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- // Hash: SHA1 // // Dear all, // // several of us have now compiled and run GnuCash on MS Windows by the // mingw32/gcc compiler environment. This is how everyone else can give it // a try as well. We would be happy to hear any further feedback about // problems or (hopefully) success in this matter. // // We've created a shell script that will download, compile, and install // all requirements of GnuCash on Windows and eventually GnuCash itself. It // will even make sure to retrieve the most up-to-date gnucash source code // directly from SVN. Running this script will probably download ~200MB of // data (but all downloaded data will be cached) and will take anything // between 0.5 through 5 hours of time. That shell script is located in // packaging/win32/install.sh of the gnucash SVN sources. For your // convenience I've attached the content of that directory to this email. // // Before you can execute this shell script (which will do everything else // automatically), you have to complete these steps manually: // // * Get the content of the packaging/win32 directory of gnucash SVN, // either from SVN or from the attached archive, and unpack it somewhere on // your Windows machine. // // * Adapt the directory name variables in the custom.sh file according to // your preferences; the defaults would install everything in // subdirectories below c:\soft. (Note that due to shell syntax, every // windows-style backslash has to be specified as two backslashes.) // // * Download the MSYS package from http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml // - - Section Current - Subsection MSYS - MSYS-1.0.10.exe // http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/MSYS-1.0.10.exe?download // // * Execute this downloaded package to install it into the chosen // directory, say, C:\soft\msys (which is the $MSYS_DIR variable in custom.sh) // // * Download the wget package from http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml // - - Current - mingwPORT - wget-1.9.1-mingwPORT.tar.bz2 // http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/wget-1.9.1-mingwPORT.tar.bz2?download // and place the downloaded file in the $DOWNLOAD_DIR you have set in custom.sh // // * Start the MSYS commandline shell by double-clicking the MSYS icon on // the desktop which should have been created when you installed the MSYS // package. // // * Let the automated build begin by typing: // // cd $INSTALLER_DIR (the directory where install.sh is located) // ./install.sh // // * If there haven't been any errors, you should be able (after several // hours of compiling and installing) to start gnucash from the MSYS // command line by typing // // c:/soft/gnucash/bin/gnucash // // or even without MSYS directly by Start- Run- // c:\soft\gnucash\bin\gnucash.bat // // Please spread the word and report back any problems you encounter. It is // probably not too difficult anymore to create a full self-contained // package of GnuCash on Windows as well! Some more information is also // collected on http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows, but the information // there might already be out of date as well. // // Good luck everyone with this! // // Christian // // -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- // Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (MingW32) // Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org // // iQCVAwUBRRKbmWXAi+BfhivFAQIGQAP5AUX6Ml+B/RbQPRHrhbw1bDDHrsOWRN3Q // 42GXZcwG3qx/mY7RJE8sonCljmpTR1ZskIFAFcAHbfqmg6xf3CET+cKItIEg+Cmq // 4uKUlXQwH+d77Mtu0YMdMPiz10dsdyngpQiPeanrjPkdZEmufmoC4jvEVg8Pea7v // IVPmVTBcv3M= // =mJyh // -END PGP SIGNATURE- / ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org
Re: GnuCash on windows - Instructions for giving it a try
Am Montag, 2. Oktober 2006 12:17 schrieb Thomas Arildsen: I tried following these instructions. First, I had to change OPENSSL_URL=http://slproweb.com/download/Win32OpenSSL-0_9_8c.exe; into OPENSSL_URL=http://slproweb.com/download/Win32OpenSSL-0_9_8d.exe; in custom.sh Thanks for reporting this. Is fixed now in SVN. After this, the install ran fine for quite a while. However, now I run into this when it reaches Autotools: autom4te_perllibdir='..'/lib AUTOM4TE_CFG='../lib/autom4te.cfg' ../bin/autom4te -B '..'/lib -B '..'/lib --language M4sh --cache '' --melt ./autoconf.as -o autoconf.in Den angivne sti blev ikke fundet. autom4te: need GNU m4 1.4 or later: /bin/m4 (Den angivne sti blev ikke fundet means The specified path was not found - it's Danish...) So it looks like m4 is not installed. Actually I don't think it's so much an error with m4 but rather with some path names in general. First of all, are you sure you installed everything into a path name *without spaces*? No c:\Program Files\ directory or whatever the Danish translation is? What is msys' bin dir exactly? And at which package exactly was this? automake, autoconf, libtool? Can you post the config.log of that package (it's in $GLOBAL_DIR\tmp\automake-x.y.z or the other package name)? (Please send the file in gzip'd form.) However, a bit further up the config logs: checking for gm4... no checking for gnum4... no checking for m4... /bin/m4 I interpret this as m4 actually being found and I can also locate m4.exe under msys' bin dir, displaying version 1.4 when queried. Does anyone have an idea what goes wrong here? No idea. I was able to compile all automake, autoconf, libtool just straightforward. Christian ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: GnuCash on windows - Instructions for giving it a try
Christian Stimming skrev: After this, the install ran fine for quite a while. However, now I run into this when it reaches Autotools: autom4te_perllibdir='..'/lib AUTOM4TE_CFG='../lib/autom4te.cfg' ../bin/autom4te -B '..'/lib -B '..'/lib --language M4sh --cache '' --melt ./autoconf.as -o autoconf.in Den angivne sti blev ikke fundet. autom4te: need GNU m4 1.4 or later: /bin/m4 (Den angivne sti blev ikke fundet means The specified path was not found - it's Danish...) So it looks like m4 is not installed. Actually I don't think it's so much an error with m4 but rather with some path names in general. First of all, are you sure you installed everything into a path name *without spaces*? No c:\Program Files\ directory or whatever the Danish translation is? What is msys' bin dir exactly? The path is C:/Programmer/msys/1.0/bin/ file:///C:/Programmer/msys/1.0/bin/ so no spaces, but 'Programmer' has a capital letter - is that a problem? file:///C:/Programmer/msys/1.0/bin/ And at which package exactly was this? automake, autoconf, libtool? Can you post the config.log of that package (it's in $GLOBAL_DIR\tmp\automake-x.y.z or the other package name)? (Please send the file in gzip'd form.) It's under the configuration of autoconf. config.log is attached. Thomas Arildsen config.log.gz Description: application/gzip ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: GnuCash on windows - Instructions for giving it a try
several of us have now compiled and run GnuCash on MS Windows by the mingw32/gcc compiler environment. This is how everyone else can give it a try as well. We would be happy to hear any further feedback about problems or (hopefully) success in this matter. I think this is terrific being able to run GnuCash on MS Windows (not that I'm going to change my platform for running GnuCash :-)). I had some time last night to try out the instructions for installing GnuCash on Windows. The instructions were easy to follow but when I run the install.sh the process stops shortly after make is invoked. There is a warning displayed when during configure. I don't know if this is related to the error in make: checking winsock2.h presence... yes configure: WARNING: winsock2.h: present but cannot be compiled configure: WARNING: winsock2.h: check for missing prerequisite headers? configure: WARNING: winsock2.h: see the Autoconf documentation configure: WARNING: winsock2.h: section Present But Cannot Be Compiled configure: WARNING: winsock2.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result configure: WARNING: winsock2.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence configure: WARNING: ## -- ## configure: WARNING: ## Report this to the AC_PACKAGE_NAME lists. ## configure: WARNING: ## -- ## And then there is the error when make runs (I'm including the last few lines of the screen output): make all-am make[4]: Entering directory `/c/GnuCash/tmp/guile-1.6.8/libguile-ltdl/upstream' make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'. make[4]: Leaving directory `/c/GnuCash/tmp/guile-1.6.8/libguile-ltdl/upstream' make[3]: Leaving directory `/c/GnuCash/tmp/guile-1.6.8/libguile-ltdl/upstream' make[3]: Entering directory `/c/GnuCash/tmp/guile-1.6.8/libguile-ltdl' /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. -I/c/GnuCash/readline/include -I/c/GnuCash/regex/include -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -fno-strict-aliasing -c -o guile-ltdl.lo guile-ltdl.c cygpath: can't convert empty path mkdir .libs gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. -I/c/GnuCash/readline/include -I/c/GnuCash/regex/include -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -fno-strict-aliasing -c guile-ltdl.c -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC -o .libs/guile-ltdl.o gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. -I/c/GnuCash/readline/include -I/c/GnuCash/regex/include -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -fno-strict-aliasing -c guile-ltdl.c -o guile-ltdl.o /dev/null 21 /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -fno-strict-aliasing -lwsock32 -L/c/GnuCash/readline/lib -L/c/GnuCash/regex/lib -lregex -no-undefined -o libguile-ltdl.la -rpath c:/GnuCash/guile/lib -version-info 1:1:0 -export-dynamic -no-undefined guile-ltdl.lo -lcrypt -lm cygpath: can't convert empty path *** Warning: linker path does not have real file for library -lwsock32. *** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when *** you link to this library. But I can only do this if you have a *** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have *** because I did check the linker path looking for a file starting *** with libwsock32 but no candidates were found. (...for file magic test) *** Warning: linker path does not have real file for library -lcrypt. *** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when *** you link to this library. But I can only do this if you have a *** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have *** because I did check the linker path looking for a file starting *** with libcrypt and none of the candidates passed a file format test *** using a file magic. Last file checked: /c/GnuCash/regex/lib/libregex.a *** The inter-library dependencies that have been dropped here will be *** automatically added whenever a program is linked with this library *** or is declared to -dlopen it. *** Since this library must not contain undefined symbols, *** because either the platform does not support them or *** it was explicitly requested with -no-undefined, *** libtool will only create a static version of it. lib /OUT:.libs/libguile-ltdl.lib guile-ltdl.o ../libtool: lib: command not found make[3]: *** [libguile-ltdl.la] Error 127 make[3]: Leaving directory `/c/GnuCash/tmp/guile-1.6.8/libguile-ltdl' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/c/GnuCash/tmp/guile-1.6.8/libguile-ltdl' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/GnuCash/tmp/guile-1.6.8' make: *** [all] Error 2 I am not trying to run GnuCash on Windows. I just wanted to follow the instructions to get it to run. If you need any additional information please let me know. Volker ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org
Re: GnuCash on windows - Instructions for giving it a try
Am Donnerstag, 28. September 2006 16:52 schrieb Volker Englisch: I think this is terrific being able to run GnuCash on MS Windows (not that I'm going to change my platform for running GnuCash :-)). :-) neither do we. I had some time last night to try out the instructions for installing GnuCash on Windows. The instructions were easy to follow but when I run the install.sh the process stops shortly after make is invoked. That's unfortunate to hear. Obviously the process stops when make for guile is invoked, which is still far from reaching the actual gnucash. There is a warning displayed when during configure. I don't know if this is related to the error in make: checking winsock2.h presence... yes configure: WARNING: winsock2.h: present but cannot be compiled configure: WARNING: winsock2.h: check for missing prerequisite headers? configure: WARNING: winsock2.h: see the Autoconf documentation configure: WARNING: winsock2.h: section Present But Cannot Be Compiled configure: WARNING: winsock2.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result configure: WARNING: winsock2.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence I think this is a hint that maybe more than one compiler is in your PATH. Also, in the later make, some cyg* command speaks up. Do you have an additional cygwin environment set up? If yes, then in the MSYS shell before starting install.sh you should modify the PATH variable so that the cygwin stuff is *not* in the PATH. Also, in make, a lib program is being called... this is probably either from cygwin or from yet another compiler (MSVC?). In either case, you should set the PATH in the shell before calling install.sh so that no other compiler environment will be found from the PATH. Thanks a lot for the feedback - I'm curious to hear how this continues when you change the PATH accordingly. make all-am make[4]: Entering directory `/c/GnuCash/tmp/guile-1.6.8/libguile-ltdl/upstream' ^^^ This tells you we're still busy compiling guile-1.6.8 /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -fno-strict-aliasing -lwsock32 -L/c/GnuCash/readline/lib -L/c/GnuCash/regex/lib -lregex -no-undefined -o libguile-ltdl.la -rpath c:/GnuCash/guile/lib -version-info 1:1:0 -export-dynamic -no-undefined guile-ltdl.lo -lcrypt -lm cygpath: can't convert empty path ^^^ The cygpath program shouldn't show up during this mingw-hosted build. *** Warning: linker path does not have real file for library -lwsock32. ^^^ All these mean the setup of the mingw environment and/or libtool went wrong. In the mingw version that is being downloaded by install.sh, all expected shared libraries should be available. Christian ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: GnuCash on windows - Instructions for giving it a try
That's a greate step forward, thanks alot. Is there any pre-compiled win32 version available? В Чтв, 21/09/2006 в 16:03 +0200, Christian Stimming пишет: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, several of us have now compiled and run GnuCash on MS Windows by the mingw32/gcc compiler environment. This is how everyone else can give it a try as well. We would be happy to hear any further feedback about problems or (hopefully) success in this matter. We've created a shell script that will download, compile, and install all requirements of GnuCash on Windows and eventually GnuCash itself. It will even make sure to retrieve the most up-to-date gnucash source code directly from SVN. Running this script will probably download ~200MB of data (but all downloaded data will be cached) and will take anything between 0.5 through 5 hours of time. That shell script is located in packaging/win32/install.sh of the gnucash SVN sources. For your convenience I've attached the content of that directory to this email. Before you can execute this shell script (which will do everything else automatically), you have to complete these steps manually: * Get the content of the packaging/win32 directory of gnucash SVN, either from SVN or from the attached archive, and unpack it somewhere on your Windows machine. * Adapt the directory name variables in the custom.sh file according to your preferences; the defaults would install everything in subdirectories below c:\soft. (Note that due to shell syntax, every windows-style backslash has to be specified as two backslashes.) * Download the MSYS package from http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml - - Section Current - Subsection MSYS - MSYS-1.0.10.exe http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/MSYS-1.0.10.exe?download * Execute this downloaded package to install it into the chosen directory, say, C:\soft\msys (which is the $MSYS_DIR variable in custom.sh) * Download the wget package from http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml - - Current - mingwPORT - wget-1.9.1-mingwPORT.tar.bz2 http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/wget-1.9.1-mingwPORT.tar.bz2?download and place the downloaded file in the $DOWNLOAD_DIR you have set in custom.sh * Start the MSYS commandline shell by double-clicking the MSYS icon on the desktop which should have been created when you installed the MSYS package. * Let the automated build begin by typing: cd $INSTALLER_DIR (the directory where install.sh is located) ./install.sh * If there haven't been any errors, you should be able (after several hours of compiling and installing) to start gnucash from the MSYS command line by typing c:/soft/gnucash/bin/gnucash or even without MSYS directly by Start- Run- c:\soft\gnucash\bin\gnucash.bat Please spread the word and report back any problems you encounter. It is probably not too difficult anymore to create a full self-contained package of GnuCash on Windows as well! Some more information is also collected on http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows, but the information there might already be out of date as well. Good luck everyone with this! Christian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBRRKbmWXAi+BfhivFAQIGQAP5AUX6Ml+B/RbQPRHrhbw1bDDHrsOWRN3Q 42GXZcwG3qx/mY7RJE8sonCljmpTR1ZskIFAFcAHbfqmg6xf3CET+cKItIEg+Cmq 4uKUlXQwH+d77Mtu0YMdMPiz10dsdyngpQiPeanrjPkdZEmufmoC4jvEVg8Pea7v IVPmVTBcv3M= =mJyh -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel -- Покотиленко Костик [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: GnuCash on windows - Instructions for giving it a try
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Покотиленко Костик schrieb: That's a greate step forward, thanks alot. Is there any pre-compiled win32 version available? No. Christian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBRROg5GXAi+BfhivFAQJDJQP+Ijg38NgvrW8piPi8JUN9Pocq++Nh+4Y/ LY7H4labCdriqmR1UyCZi4pNn/HUlRueUE7Tttxwdw/7ySauiFxTGolCopodGm5X KqDX1Eppjhr3PLbMtQ9DcVrjSdxBhbVorGQtlpM5pL6czVKYQFV7M4LXv5nWdWK8 iCnEsU2Ic34= =OyMt -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: GnuCash on windows - Instructions for giving it a try
Christian Stimming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: �� schrieb: That's a greate step forward, thanks alot. Is there any pre-compiled win32 version available? No. We're still working on that part. We figured that we'd announce that we got it 'working' on win32 first and let other people try it by compiling it. Binary packages are on the todo list.. But Christian's first attempt failed to work properly. Christian -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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP key available ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: GnuCash on windows - Instructions for giving it a try
That's good news. В Птн, 22/09/2006 в 08:21 -0400, Derek Atkins пишет: Christian Stimming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: schrieb: That's a greate step forward, thanks alot. Is there any pre-compiled win32 version available? No. We're still working on that part. We figured that we'd announce that we got it 'working' on win32 first and let other people try it by compiling it. Binary packages are on the todo list.. But Christian's first attempt failed to work properly. Christian -derek -- Покотиленко Костик [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
GnuCash on windows - Instructions for giving it a try
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, several of us have now compiled and run GnuCash on MS Windows by the mingw32/gcc compiler environment. This is how everyone else can give it a try as well. We would be happy to hear any further feedback about problems or (hopefully) success in this matter. We've created a shell script that will download, compile, and install all requirements of GnuCash on Windows and eventually GnuCash itself. It will even make sure to retrieve the most up-to-date gnucash source code directly from SVN. Running this script will probably download ~200MB of data (but all downloaded data will be cached) and will take anything between 0.5 through 5 hours of time. That shell script is located in packaging/win32/install.sh of the gnucash SVN sources. For your convenience I've attached the content of that directory to this email. Before you can execute this shell script (which will do everything else automatically), you have to complete these steps manually: * Get the content of the packaging/win32 directory of gnucash SVN, either from SVN or from the attached archive, and unpack it somewhere on your Windows machine. * Adapt the directory name variables in the custom.sh file according to your preferences; the defaults would install everything in subdirectories below c:\soft. (Note that due to shell syntax, every windows-style backslash has to be specified as two backslashes.) * Download the MSYS package from http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml - - Section Current - Subsection MSYS - MSYS-1.0.10.exe http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/MSYS-1.0.10.exe?download * Execute this downloaded package to install it into the chosen directory, say, C:\soft\msys (which is the $MSYS_DIR variable in custom.sh) * Download the wget package from http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml - - Current - mingwPORT - wget-1.9.1-mingwPORT.tar.bz2 http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/wget-1.9.1-mingwPORT.tar.bz2?download and place the downloaded file in the $DOWNLOAD_DIR you have set in custom.sh * Start the MSYS commandline shell by double-clicking the MSYS icon on the desktop which should have been created when you installed the MSYS package. * Let the automated build begin by typing: cd $INSTALLER_DIR (the directory where install.sh is located) ./install.sh * If there haven't been any errors, you should be able (after several hours of compiling and installing) to start gnucash from the MSYS command line by typing c:/soft/gnucash/bin/gnucash or even without MSYS directly by Start- Run- c:\soft\gnucash\bin\gnucash.bat Please spread the word and report back any problems you encounter. It is probably not too difficult anymore to create a full self-contained package of GnuCash on Windows as well! Some more information is also collected on http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows, but the information there might already be out of date as well. Good luck everyone with this! Christian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBRRKbmWXAi+BfhivFAQIGQAP5AUX6Ml+B/RbQPRHrhbw1bDDHrsOWRN3Q 42GXZcwG3qx/mY7RJE8sonCljmpTR1ZskIFAFcAHbfqmg6xf3CET+cKItIEg+Cmq 4uKUlXQwH+d77Mtu0YMdMPiz10dsdyngpQiPeanrjPkdZEmufmoC4jvEVg8Pea7v IVPmVTBcv3M= =mJyh -END PGP SIGNATURE- win32-gnucash.tar.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: GnuCash on windows - Instructions for giving it a try
I have to say: Way to go, guys! A big Thanks! to Christian, and Andreas, and Derek for whacking at the win32 build. I look forward to seeing even more reports of success. -chris On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 04:03:05PM +0200, Christian Stimming wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, several of us have now compiled and run GnuCash on MS Windows by the mingw32/gcc compiler environment. This is how everyone else can give it a try as well. We would be happy to hear any further feedback about problems or (hopefully) success in this matter. We've created a shell script that will download, compile, and install all requirements of GnuCash on Windows and eventually GnuCash itself. It will even make sure to retrieve the most up-to-date gnucash source code directly from SVN. Running this script will probably download ~200MB of data (but all downloaded data will be cached) and will take anything between 0.5 through 5 hours of time. That shell script is located in packaging/win32/install.sh of the gnucash SVN sources. For your convenience I've attached the content of that directory to this email. Before you can execute this shell script (which will do everything else automatically), you have to complete these steps manually: * Get the content of the packaging/win32 directory of gnucash SVN, either from SVN or from the attached archive, and unpack it somewhere on your Windows machine. * Adapt the directory name variables in the custom.sh file according to your preferences; the defaults would install everything in subdirectories below c:\soft. (Note that due to shell syntax, every windows-style backslash has to be specified as two backslashes.) * Download the MSYS package from http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml - - Section Current - Subsection MSYS - MSYS-1.0.10.exe http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/MSYS-1.0.10.exe?download * Execute this downloaded package to install it into the chosen directory, say, C:\soft\msys (which is the $MSYS_DIR variable in custom.sh) * Download the wget package from http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml - - Current - mingwPORT - wget-1.9.1-mingwPORT.tar.bz2 http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/wget-1.9.1-mingwPORT.tar.bz2?download and place the downloaded file in the $DOWNLOAD_DIR you have set in custom.sh * Start the MSYS commandline shell by double-clicking the MSYS icon on the desktop which should have been created when you installed the MSYS package. * Let the automated build begin by typing: cd $INSTALLER_DIR (the directory where install.sh is located) ./install.sh * If there haven't been any errors, you should be able (after several hours of compiling and installing) to start gnucash from the MSYS command line by typing c:/soft/gnucash/bin/gnucash or even without MSYS directly by Start- Run- c:\soft\gnucash\bin\gnucash.bat Please spread the word and report back any problems you encounter. It is probably not too difficult anymore to create a full self-contained package of GnuCash on Windows as well! Some more information is also collected on http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows, but the information there might already be out of date as well. Good luck everyone with this! Christian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBRRKbmWXAi+BfhivFAQIGQAP5AUX6Ml+B/RbQPRHrhbw1bDDHrsOWRN3Q 42GXZcwG3qx/mY7RJE8sonCljmpTR1ZskIFAFcAHbfqmg6xf3CET+cKItIEg+Cmq 4uKUlXQwH+d77Mtu0YMdMPiz10dsdyngpQiPeanrjPkdZEmufmoC4jvEVg8Pea7v IVPmVTBcv3M= =mJyh -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
