Thanks Bob, this was very helpful. I encountered all of the same issues that you described during my setup as well.
The "maximum file size exceeded" for the sig file, the frozen "Updating trust database...", etc. Running "pacman -S python-setuptools" fixed the distutils error for me. Also as you described, I ran into the missing libmariadbclient and postresql packages during the initial setup. And now it complains of missing gcrypt and boost on jhbuild. In your post you mentioned copying packages and sig files from your backup because they are no longer available for Msys2. I suppose now I need to try and source these from somewhere. Thanks, Kevin ________________________________ From: Robert Fewell <14ubo...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2024 3:17 PM To: Kevin Sanders <kbsand...@hotmail.com> Cc: GnuCash Development <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> Subject: Re: GnuCash Windows Build Help 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<mailto: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<mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us>> Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2024 12:24 PM To: Kevin Sanders <kbsand...@hotmail.com<mailto:kbsand...@hotmail.com>> Cc: GnuCash Development <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto:gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
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