Adam, Could you please update the wiki steps so windows users can follow what you did. I have been trying for a while now without success Thanks Youssef
----- Original Message ---- From: Adam Rosi-Kessel <a...@rosi-kessel.org> To: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2009 4:35:02 PM Subject: Re: Building problems on win32 Yup, the registry hack seems to fix it. Andreas Köhler wrote, on 1/7/2009 5:28 PM: > Hi Adam, > > great work, I will try to integrate it subsequently in the following days. > > When gnucash fails to find certain files, consider an installed copy of > gnucash. We do some crazy things, probably look up paths in the > registry or stuff like that. Does renaming HKLM\Software\GnuCash change > anything? We need a better solution here as well... > > Ciao, > -- andi5 > > Adam Rosi-Kessel schrieb: >> msys/mingw finally fixed a bug that was preventing me from building >> gnc from source (see >> <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user/28356/focus=28594>). >> >> packaging/win32/install.sh does not work without several changes. The >> URLs for libxslt, gwenhywfar, and aqbanking all appear to be dead. The >> following substitute URLs appeared to work, though: >> >> LIBXSLT_URL="http://xmlsoft.org/sources/win32/oldreleases/libxslt-1.1.19.win32.zip"; >> >> >> GWENHYWFAR_URL="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/distfiles/gwenhywfar-3.4.1.tar.gz"; >> >> >> AQBANKING_URL="http://www2.aquamaniac.de/sites/download/download.php?package=03&release=17&file=01&dummy=aqbanking-3.7.2.tar.gz"; >> >> >> >> I also eventually gave up on building aqbanking with QT so set >> AQBANKING_WITH_QT to 'no'; but install.sh attempts to build aqbanking >> with backend 'aqdtaus', which no longer exists as a separate backend >> in the version of aqbanking specified in install.sh. I got around this >> by substituting "all" for the list of backends previously specified in >> install.sh (aqdtaus, aqhbci, aqofxconnect). >> >> htmlhelper had to be manually installed into c:\soft\hh; a more recent >> version was already installed in the default location on my machine >> (under c:\program files), which the installer did not pick up on. I >> couldn't figure out any work around other than to just copy C:\Program >> Files\HTML Help Workshop to c:\soft\hh. >> >> I also had to manually copy several DLLs to get xmlmerge.exe to work >> in the build process; I had to copy those same DLLs to the gnc bin >> installation folder to get gnc to run once it was built. >> >> So after a full day of churning, I finally had a successful build from >> svn. Well, almost. gnc runs to the point of showing the tip of the day >> and the splash screen, but then dies silently. Here is the log: >> >> * WARN <gnc.module> Failed to dlopen() >> 'c:\soft\gnucash\inst\lib\gnucash\libgncmod-aqbanking.dll': The >> specified module could not be found. >> * WARN <qof.engine> [guid_init()] only got 2148 bytes. >> The identifiers might not be very random. >> * WARN <gnc.engine> failed to load gncmod-backend-dbi from >> C:\Program Files\gnucash\lib\gnucash >> * CRIT <gnc.engine> required library gncmod-backend-dbi not found. >> * WARN <gnc.engine> failed to load gncmod-backend-xml from >> C:\Program Files\gnucash\lib\gnucash >> * CRIT <gnc.engine> required library gncmod-backend-xml not found. >> * CRIT <gnc.gui> [gnc_gnome_locate_data_file()] Could not locate >> file ui/gnc-plugin-csv-ui.xml >> * WARN <gnc.module> Initialization failed for module >> gnucash/business-core-xml >> * WARN <gnc.module> Initialization failed for module >> gnucash/business-core-sql >> * WARN <gnc.bin> GnuCash engine failed to initialize. Exiting. >> >> So I still can't run gnc svn (which I'm trying to do to test out the >> fix to bug #426111), but I thought I'd pass this all along in case it >> helps improve the build process. >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
