Russ, Have you considered setting up a Linux build environment instead? You can install your distro of choice in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (aka WSL). Many of them have a package manager target similar to Debian/Ubuntu’s `apt build-dep gnucash` that sets up everything you need except a code editor. It’s much less frustrating than the MinGW64 environment.
Regards, John Ralls > On Mar 18, 2025, at 15:27, <russ.go...@gmail.com> <russ.go...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > That would be great. > I‘ve been converting the build script to python for my own uses so I’d be > very interested in anything you discover. > I am new to the MSYS2/MING environment and am still coming up to speed. > I want to start working on the C++ code but need to understand the build and > env details first I think. > Thanks, we’ll keep in touch > > From: Robert Fewell <14ubo...@gmail.com> > Sent: Monday, March 17, 2025 3:18 AM > To: russ.go...@gmail.com > Cc: Kevin Sanders <kbsand...@hotmail.com>; GnuCash Development > <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> > Subject: Re: GnuCash Windows Build Help > > Russ, > After a PC swap to Windows 11, I need to redo my windows build machine so > will be starting from scratch. I should be able to do this this week so will > report back here and hopefully be able to update the build script. > > Regards, > Robert > > On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 at 23:10, <russ.go...@gmail.com > <mailto:russ.go...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> Hello all, I am also trying to build GnuCash on native Windows (64-bit >> Windows 10) >> I've reviewed the other threads on here from Kevin Sanders and Robert Fewell >> about native windows builds and have run into the same problems during >> bootstrap and worked around them in similar ways. >> I'm stuck on step 1/14 running jhbuild and was hoping one of them might have >> some insight. >> >> Prior to building the first module, I ran into similar problems as others: >> I ran into the same 'distutils' problem >> This was which was addressed via >> Running: "pacman -S python-setuptools" >> I ran into the same missing 'gcrypt' problem >> This was addressed via >> Installing win-sudo >> Running: "sudo jhbuild sysdeps --install" >> >> Step 1/14 is building OpenSP-1.5.2 >> It checks out and configures fine, but once the build starts I see what >> looks like maybe some header file problems but it errors out building >> CmdLineApp.lo, DtdDeclEventHandler.lo Entity.lo and ArcEngine.lo >> >> I saw Robert Fewell notes on failures in OpenSP build and took those changes >> to utils/packagedb.py but that doesn't address compilation errors I'm seeing. >> >> If anyone has any insights on these specific issues that would be great. >> Short of that, I want to start at the first failure but the parallel builds >> are gumming the output >> >> Q1: Can someone point me to where/how to eliminate the parallel jhbuilds >> (make -j5) so I can at least see some serial output? >> >> Thanks for any pointers you might have. >> Russ >> >> >> From: gnucash-devel <gnucash-devel-bounces+russ.gorby=gmail....@gnucash.org >> <mailto:gmail....@gnucash.org>> On Behalf Of Kevin Sanders >> Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2024 12:00 PM >> To: GnuCash Development <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >> <mailto:gnucash-devel@gnucash.org>> >> Subject: Re: GnuCash Windows Build Help >> >> 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 > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
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