On Jan 30, 2008 4:59 PM, Charles Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 30, 2008 9:25 AM, Andreas Köhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Charles, > > > > On Mi, 2008-01-30 at 01:45 -0800, Charles Day wrote: > > > I have a question about building GnuCash on Windows XP. I've built > > GnuCash > > > plenty of times with install.sh and it works reliably. But if I go and > > > change, say, one line of druid-qif-import.c, what is the quickest way > > to > > > recompile/rebuild GnuCash? > > > > > > I thought that I could just go to the build directory and do a make, > > > followed by make install, but if I do that then GnuCash hangs during > > > startup, hogs the CPU and has to be killed. > > > > > > If I run install.sh again then it does an "svn up" (which I don't > > want) and > > > also runs configure again (which I don't want), and takes a very, very > > long > > > time to get through the whole process, but GnuCash does indeed work in > > the > > > end! > > > > > > Any advice would be appreciated. > > > > I suppose this happens because of dependency_libs lines in libtool > > archives (*.la). I used to run the attached script after `make > > install`, maybe it helps you as well. > > > > -- andi5 > > > > > Thanks Andreas, that fixes it! I see that this is basically the same > Windows-specific steps that happen in install.sh "make install", with a > few small adjustments. I couldn't explain some differences though, and I > wonder if the script you gave me has gotten out of sync with what's in > install.sh (the line about "start gnucash-bin" for example). >
Sorry, a typo... the words "make install" should have been deleted in the paragraph above. > So it seems that "make" and "make install" is not enough for Windows > developers, as we need to run this script afterwards. Any chance of > including cleaninst.sh in SVN with the other packaging scripts? Perhaps it > could be integrated with install.sh in a way that keeps the shared code in > sync? > > -Charles _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
