I think a lot of these changes are better made directly to install.sh, rather than the wiki (aside from the registry hack); Andreas, do you agree?
Youssef Ltaief wrote, on 1/8/2009 1:26 AM: > 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
