On Thursday 01 May 2014 15:55:07 Geert Janssens wrote: > Thank you for my feedback. It's nice to hear my effort is appreciated. > Sometimes I appear to write utter nonsense... Rereading the above I of course wanted to say Thank you for *your* feedback.
Oh well... Too many distractions... Geert > Your suggestion to move the installation of html help to the top is > very useful. I'll check if this is possible and if so will make the > necessary changes. > > Geert > > On Tuesday 29 April 2014 20:08:59 Wm Tarr wrote: > > On 28/04/2014 10:09, Geert Janssens wrote: > > > Lastly, how to use my repository ? > > > - Download the bootstrap_win_dev.vbs script. It has some > > > documentation at the beginning. Running it is mostly a > > > double-click. This will prepare a c:\gcdev directory with the > > > minimal tools required to run install.sh - Start msys > > > (c:\gcdev\mingw\msys\1.0\msys.bat) > > > - cd /c/gcdev/gnucash-on-windows.git > > > - install.sh > > > > > > Please test and provide feedback. > > > > Wooooohoooo! > > > > I think I may be the first reporting like this, if I am not then I > > happily join others who have reported success. > > > > It works! I am now proudly running > > === > > GnuCash 2.6.99 > > The GnuCash personal finance manager. The GNU way to manage your > > money! This copy was built from git rev acad5a0+ on 2014-04-29 > > === > > > > First my congratulations and thanks to Geert and anyone else that > > has > > worked on this. I think you deserve a beer / coffee / beverage of > > choice for the amazing effort you must have put in. > > > > I thank you, personally, and expect others will too once the > > significance of this becomes clear [1] > > > > I do not exaggerate when I say that this experience is an order of > > magnitude different to the last time I attempted to build GnuCash > > under Win. > > > > Note: only one real glitch (attempt to build svn) was encountered > > and > > has already been fixed (thanks for prompt attention, Geert). > > > > Note regarding human interaction: a human needs to get involved in > > specifying gncdev/hh for the HTML Help, but because the build takes > > some time and the HH happens part way through I was busy doing > > something else when the licence, directory choice dialogue, etc. > > came > > up and dismissed them thinking they were to do with something else. > > My suggestion is that if there are no other dependencies the > > === > > add_step inst_hh > > === > > is done right at the beginning / as soon as possible in install.sh > > while the human is still paying attention. Everything after that > > will run by itself unless there is an error (in my experience). > > > > > > > > Some timings for those interested. > > > > 12:48 downloaded bootstrap_win_dev.vbs and started it off > > > > (it wouldn't run by itself here so I started it in a > > > > console with cscript.exe <path-to-this-script> as mentioned in the > > script itself which worked fine) > > 18:58 I had a working GnuCash 2.6.99 > > > > that is 6 hours and 10 minutes and would have been less if I hadn't > > come across the svn problem (now fixed as mentioned above) and gone > > through the inst_hh section 3 times because I'm a dumb human and > > wasn't reading the instructions properly -- though my excuse is that > > inst_hh should be near the top because I'd have been paying > > attention > > then! That is my excuse and I am sticking to it :) _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
