I was trying around the same time as Robert on a fresh Windows machine and it failed as well. With the same message.
-Sumit -----Original Message----- From: gnucash-devel <gnucash-devel-bounces+bhardwajs=outlook....@gnucash.org> On Behalf Of Robert Fewell Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2020 02:02 To: John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> Cc: gnucash-devel <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> Subject: Re: [GNC-dev] Fresh Windows build setup fails John, Every thing above from 'My last attempt...' was done from the MINGW64 terminal prompt. Regards, Bob On Thu, 24 Dec 2020 at 01:31, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > > On Dec 23, 2020, at 6:50 AM, Robert Fewell <14ubo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > My Windows 10 hard drive failed which I thought would not be a big > > deal > as > > I only use it to build and test the windows build. After installing > Windows > > 10 and updating I grabbed the setup-mingw64.ps1 file and proceeded > > to recreate my build system. > > > > Unfortunately that did not work, tried the 32bit and 64bit versions > > which both failed. The first problem was that pkg-config --list-all > > would list all the packages with a starting forward slash with > > problems also in jhbuild. > > > > So tried another tact, I had an old backup from March which I > > restored > and > > then proceeded to update but that resulted in pacman listing loads > > of missing packages in the 'virtual world' > > > > My last attempt was to do the script manually, all OK till line 241 > > where it installed mingw64/cmake and pkg-config. Once these were > > installed pkg-config --list-all would list with forward slash's. To > > overcome this I uninstalled them and installed msys versions and > > proceeded to the end of script. > > > > I have not checked the whether the boost version is correct for the > webkit > > version as to start with I just wanted a valid dependency. > > > > Changed to the gnucash-on-windows.git directory to start the build > > but > that > > failed as follows... > > > > Failed to 'import jhbuild' on line 15 > > to fix I changed line 12 to sys.path.insert(0, > > 'c:/gcdev64/src/jhbuild.git') > > > > Next was subprocess_win32 has no check_output so added a line > > check_output = real_subprocess.check_output to subprocess_win32.py > > > > Which resulted in a string has no split method in systeminstall.py > > so changed shell_split = string.split to shell_split = str.split > > > > I am not sure these changes are correct as I know nothing about > > python > but > > I can now run... > > > > $ TARGET=gnucash-maint jhbuild -f jhbuildrc build Required packages: > > System installed packages which are too old: > > (none) > > No matching system package installed: > > make > > gcrypt > > pkg-config > > gmp > > git > > boost > > cmake > > ninja > > > > The strange thing is that all these are installed as... > > cmake --version gives 3.18.4, ninja --version gives 1.10.2 > > > > So the question is, has anybody recently done a fresh build setup > > install and it worked or know how to fix. > > Bob, > > Are you trying to run MSYS2 commands from a CMD or Powershell window > instead of from an MinGW32/64 one? > > Regards, > John Ralls > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.gnucash.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fgnucash-devel&data=04%7C01%7C%7C28d9450ad55d4a9a24f508d8a7f32a45%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637444010130223888%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=DtWcT38sL5wOO0vMcHzlZXc0GeaM7LV4zwYjHoK5N9Y%3D&reserved=0 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
