On 9/6/07, Stephen Grant Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear List Members, > > I wish to get GNUcash running under the Microsoft Vista operating system.
nice :) I'd help out if I had vista around. It was running well under Microsoft XP on my old computer but I upgraded to > a new computer with Vista and i have not been able to get it working since. > > The precompiled 2.2.1 executable runs very slowly under Vista. > > I have downloaded and installed msys into C:\\soft\\msys and it works. > > I have used svn to put the packaging dir into > C:\\soft\\msys\\home\\Stephen\\GNUCash\\Packaging > > In defaults.sh I changed the line to > > set_default GLOBAL_DIR c:\\soft\\msys\\home\\Stephen\\GNUCash your GLOBAL_DIR should be the directory where msys is installed, so c:\\soft should have worked...is there a reason why you are changing it? as I could not seem to do it via the custom.sh file. To use custom.sh, create a text file named custom.sh with unix line endings in the same directory where you have install.sh (probably C:\\soft\\msys\\home\\Stephen\\GNUCash\\Packaging\\win32) Put the entries you would like to change in as follows: GLOBAL_DIR=C:\\path\\to\\your\\new\\global\\dir What do I put in the custom.sh file to change the GLOBAL_DIR value? > > I have been switching between an admin shell and user shell to install the > build enviroment by running install.sh in the Packing directory specified > above. When one shell bombed out the other worked a bit more. It has to do > with Vista's User Access Control technology. > > I have got down to installing autoconf by this butchering method. > > In doing so executable files have been going into 3 locations namely > > /bin > /local/bin > > and > > /home/Stephen/GNUCash/msys/bin you seem to be having msys going into the able directory and to C:\\soft\\msys. This is due to your global_dir setting, as above - you probably shoudn't change global_dir. Try leaving all the directories as the default directories and see if that works. install.sh shouldn't be placing files around like that. I'm not sure if switching users is making vista give you more greif - you could try it all with the same user (admin or otherwise). Hope this helps, Nathan I have used synch toy to keep this three directorys the same. > > How do I tell install.sh to put them all in the same directory? Any further suggestions as to what to do will be greatly appreciated. > > Yours Sincerely Stephen Grant brown > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > > -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Got Mole problems? Call Avogadro at 6.02 x 10^23. _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
