Kevin, You may find my earlier post of use in building on windows, hopefully I will get round to creating a PR to update procedure, see link below... https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2024-September/046961.html
Regards, Bob On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 at 19:00, Kevin Sanders <kbsand...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Thanks John, I have joined the mailing list as suggested. > > I installed the recommended distutils extra package and it completed > successfully but the error remains. > > Do you know what controls the version of python MinGW32 is using? Latest > stable or something like that? > The word "python" appears only once in the PowerShell setup script and is > sans version. > > Perhaps this could be a PATH or environment issue where installed modules > cannot be resolved? > > Console Output: > > Kevin@Kevin-PC MINGW32 /c/gcdev64/src/gnucash-on-windows.git > $ pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-python-distutils-extra > resolving dependencies... > looking for conflicting packages... > > Packages (1) mingw-w64-i686-python-distutils-extra-2.39-4 > > Total Download Size: 0.04 MiB > Total Installed Size: 0.11 MiB > > :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y > :: Retrieving packages... > mingw-w64-i686-python-dist... 36.5 KiB 39.1 KiB/s 00:01 > [###############################] 100% > (1/1) checking keys in keyring > [###############################] 100% > (1/1) checking package integrity > [###############################] 100% > (1/1) loading package files > [###############################] 100% > (1/1) checking for file conflicts > [###############################] 100% > (1/1) checking available disk space > [###############################] 100% > :: Processing package changes... > (1/1) installing mingw-w64-i686-python-distutils-extra > [###############################] 100% > > Kevin@Kevin-PC MINGW32 /c/gcdev64/src/gnucash-on-windows.git > $ TARGET=gnucash-stable jhbuild -f jhbuildrc build > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/jhbuild", line 22, in <module> > import jhbuild.main > File "/c/gcdev64/src/jhbuild.git/jhbuild/main.py", line 26, in <module> > import jhbuild.config > File "/c/gcdev64/src/jhbuild.git/jhbuild/config.py", line 31, in <module> > from jhbuild.environment import setup_env, setup_env_defaults, addpath > File "/c/gcdev64/src/jhbuild.git/jhbuild/environment.py", line 24, in > <module> > from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib > ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils' > > ------------------------------ > *From:* John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> > *Sent:* Thursday, November 7, 2024 12:24 PM > *To:* Kevin Sanders <kbsand...@hotmail.com> > *Cc:* GnuCash Development <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> > *Subject:* Re: GnuCash Windows Build Help > > Kevin, > > Welcome to GnuCash. Please don’t contact the developers directly; always > use one of the mailing lists (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists). > You can pick whether user or devel is appropriate for a particular > conversation, the developers monitor both. For this conversation I’ve > picked devel and cc’d it for your convenience. You’ll need to subscribe to > it to reply. > > That sounds like a Mingw64 problem, as Python officially didn’t remove > distutils until 3.12. OTOH distutils has been deprecated for years and the > jhbuild maintainers have been ignoring the problem. They still are: > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/jhbuild/-/issues/291. Anyway, it looks > like Mingw64 has provided a workaround called > ming-w64-python-distutils-extra ( > https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-python-distutils-extra). > You can install it from a Mingw32 terminal window by saying > > pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-python-distutils-extra > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > On Nov 7, 2024, at 08:47, Kevin Sanders <kbsand...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi John, my name is Kevin Sanders. > > I'm a new user of GnuCash and I'm trying to get setup to do some > development work with GnuCash on Windows. > > I'm sorry to bother you but I've run into an issue that I'm not sure how > to resolve. > > I have ran the setup-mingw.ps1 PowerShell script. > I have launched a MSYS2 MingGW 32-bit terminal window and cd into the > repository directory. > I run jhbuild and it fails with ModuleNotFoundError: No module named > 'distutils'. > > I believe this to be a python issue, but I'm not really sure. > Python version is showing as 3.11.10. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > -Kevin > > Console Output: > > Kevin@Kevin-PC MINGW32 /c/gcdev64/src/gnucash-on-windows.git > $ TARGET=gnucash-stable jhbuild -f jhbuildrc build > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/jhbuild", line 22, in <module> > import jhbuild.main > File "/c/gcdev64/src/jhbuild.git/jhbuild/main.py", line 26, in <module> > import jhbuild.config > File "/c/gcdev64/src/jhbuild.git/jhbuild/config.py", line 31, in <module> > from jhbuild.environment import setup_env, setup_env_defaults, addpath > File "/c/gcdev64/src/jhbuild.git/jhbuild/environment.py", line 24, in > <module> > from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib > ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils' > > Kevin@Kevin-PC MINGW32 /c/gcdev64/src/gnucash-on-windows.git > $ python --version > Python 3.11.10 > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >
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