On Monday 23 December 2013 16:04:56 Gary Bilkus wrote: > Hi Geert, > I've downloaded your repository and started trying to follow the > instructions in the README in /packaging/win32 > But I'm not getting very far.... > 1. The location of MSYS needs to change from: > https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS%20Base%20System/msys > -1.0.11/MSYS-1.0.11.exe/download to > https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS/Base/msys-core/msys-> > 1.0.11/MSYS-1.0.11.exe 2. Similarly wget has moved slightly to: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Other/mingwPORT/Current%20 > Releases/ > > So I download these, install msys set up a minimal custom.sh and start > msys But it immediately complains ./install-impl.sh mingw-get: > command not found So should I install mingw as well? If so where to, > or doesn't it matter? I'm sure I can work it out, but if the > intention is a click and forget install, there seems to be at least > one step missing. > Or am I looking at the wrong instructions? > Thanks, > Gary
Gary, I'm sorry I didn't mention this more clearly. The documentation is not updated yet. So the information in the README file is still for the old build process. This is how I think you should proceed (I'm assuming you stick with the default path names): - clear every trace of the previous gnucash build environment from your system, including mingw and msys. - download this file: https://raw.github.com/gjanssens/gnucash/mingw-rebasing/packaging/win32/bootstrap_win_dev.vbs This comes from my git repository, but you don't need to have git installed on your system just yet. The top of the file gives a bit more information on what it will do (install minimal mingw, msys, git and clone the gnucash repository). - *intermediate step* edit the file and change the repos url in line 44 to: REPOS_URL = "git://github.com:gjanssens/gnucash.git" This is only necessary because my work is not in the default gnucash repository yet. - save the file - double-click to execute the file. It will open a console window in which you can follow its progress. Wait until it finishes. - at this point, you should have a new directory c:\soft with at least directories mingw and gnucash.git. Perhaps also a git-1.7.10 directory if git was not yet installed on your system (or maybe even in that case). - *intermediate steps* (no longer necessary when my work is integrated in the main gnucash git repository) * open a git bash window on the newly downloaded repository you can do this via a windows explorer and then right-click on the directory of the repository * track and checkout my mingw branch git branch -t mingw origin/mingw-rebasing git checkout mingw - now open an msys console. The bootstrap script currently doesn't create a softlink on the desktop yet, so you will have to navigate to c:\soft\mingw\msys\1.0\ and double-click msys.bat in there. - within that console, start the gnucash build: * cd /c/soft/gnucash.git/packaging/win32 * ./install.sh With the current state of the branch this should work until the gnucash build step. There I run into no-undefined warnings I haven't had time to figure out yet. Can you try these steps and let me know how it goes ? By the way I'm open to patches to either the build, the README file or other improvements on this subject :) Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
