On zaterdag 5 maart 2011, Stephen Brown wrote: > Hi Geert > > Mine are to take all the instructions in > http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows#Q:_Is_it_possible_to_compile_GnuCash_o > n_Windows.3F, compile it > into a windows executable file, include the other programs mentioned, and > make the whole lot available so that some one can download it, run it, and > have gnucash built on their Microsoft Windows machine with minimal user > input. > > Yours Sincerely Stephen Grant Brown
While I consider it quite an achievement to get a complext piece of code such as GnuCash to build on Windows, there are a couple of things that I'm not too happy with in the Windows build process. For starters, the whole build is one big shell script. It does the job, but it lacks many features of a complete build system. I'm thinking of systems like automake, cmake, jhbuild,... Those systems would handle dependency changes more gracefully. I also believe that GnuCash development should focus on, well, GnuCash. All the other items that are built via the script are actually support libraries. Having the script to verify each of these dependencies before actually starting a GnuCash build takes valuable time. In fact, that every developer has to do that at least once while setting up the development environment for the first time is a shared loss of time. So here I play with the idea to build some kind of gnucash-support-libs sdk that can simply be installed via an installer program by anyone that likes to do some GnuCash development on windows. Only one dev has to build this sdk and publish it on the GnuCash website. All others can simply download and install it and focus on GnuCash from there on. When one of the support libraries has to be updates, a new sdk installer is built which can then be installed by the other devs. I realize that the idea of a preinstalled sdk conflicts with the concept of jhbuild, which builds everything from scratch. But these are only rough ideas anyway, not something ready for implementation yet. Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
