On Monday 07 November 2016 07:23:42 John Ralls wrote: > > On Nov 7, 2016, at 6:29 AM, Robert Fewell <14ubo...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Tried to build the latest windows version from master but it would > > not. The first error I got was that 'stoi' was not declared in this > > scope at line 1826,1827,1828 in gnc-backend-sql.cpp, changed that > > to use 'atoi' just to get going but it then failed at line > > 1271,1277 in gnc-backend-dbi.cpp on the PWARN lines. Commented > > those out just to get going again but it failed again at line 80 in > > gnc-dbiproviderimpl.hpp on 'to_string' is not a member of std. > > > > At this point I checked out an earlier version to complete my test. > > > > Looking at the 'stoi' and 'to_string' errors they seem to be fixed > > in a later version of ming, I think ming-w64, just wondering if the > > build environment needs to be newer with all these c++ changes or > > will that effect other things ? > > I'll have a look at the stoi problem today. > > MinGW should be using gcc-4.9.3. That's what's on Debian Jessie and > master compiles fine there, so I don't think that it's a C++ support > problem. > > That said, MinGW64 seems to have a lot more mind-share recently than > MinGW so perhaps we should look at it. I've no idea at this point > whether it can be a "drop-in" replacement or would require > substantial reworking of the build scripts. > Oh, and to answer your question, yes we'll need to rework the build scripts, but I believe they will simplify as a result of the switch as 90% of the required dependencies is available as a package in Mingw64. Some I am really looking forward to are guile 2.0 and a more recent version of webkitgtk.
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