Thank you Robert! I’ve integrated your changes from your repo and that solved the issues I was struggling with on the Windows build.
My py build script can now clean, configure, build, and package correctly. Thank you! Now I just need to test the package I built LOL Oh, and resolve the HTML Help workshop issue I have – it seems there is some stub or something for v1.4 already present on Windows 10 which prevents v1.3 from being installed. How did you workaraound that? Thanks again! From: gnucash-devel <gnucash-devel-bounces+russ.gorby=gmail....@gnucash.org> On Behalf Of Robert Fewell Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 6:03 AM To: gnucash-devel <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> Subject: Re: GnuCash Windows Build Help I have fixed the two issues I had and have updated my changes here... https://github.com/Bob-IT/gnucash-on-windows/tree/changes If you want to try it before it is possibly uploaded then do the following... Grab setup-mingw64.ps1 from my changes branch and add a 'pause' statement between lines 392 and 393 Run the script and when you get to the pause, get the other files I have updated and replace the ones installed in 'gnucash-on-windows.git' Press enter to continue the script and when finished you should have a valid Msys2 build environment. Now just follow the rest of the instructions on building Gnucash and hopefully it will work. This environment is set up to work with 'webkitgtk3-2.4.11-999.51' version and when tested, reports could be opened along with charts. I did try the 'webkitgtk3-2.4.11-999.6' version which seemed to work in this environment but charts fail so maybe I have missed a dependency. There is one more version, 'webkitgtk3-2.4.11-999.7' but the file size is way bigger than previous versions so not sure if it is correct. Regards, Robert On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 at 10:32, Robert Fewell <14ubo...@gmail.com <mailto:14ubo...@gmail.com> > wrote: I have managed to get a build and install for a current version of the Msys2 install but have two problems to fix. The first is "OpenSP" does not build, fails on the PO directory I think. The second is that a patch for "bdw-gc" is not automatically being applied, to get round this I have deliberately misspelt the file name in gnucash.modules which allows me to drop to a shell and apply it manually and then continue. To get round the "OpenSP" build failure for testing I copied a working "OpenSP" "src" and "build" directory when the build failed and then just rerun the build phase. My changes are here, https://github.com/Bob-IT/gnucash-on-windows/tree/changes For the "OpenSP" build failure, there must be an updated Msys2 file/environment change but at the moment I can not see it, the following is the failure. Making all in generic make[2]: Entering directory '/c/gcdev64/gnucash/stable/build/OpenSP-1.5.2/generic' make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'. make[2]: Leaving directory '/c/gcdev64/gnucash/stable/build/OpenSP-1.5.2/generic' Making all in po make[2]: Entering directory '/c/gcdev64/gnucash/stable/build/OpenSP-1.5.2/po' make[2]: *** No rule to make target '/config.status', needed by 'Makefile'. Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory '/c/gcdev64/gnucash/stable/build/OpenSP-1.5.2/po' make[1]: *** [Makefile:544: all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/c/gcdev64/gnucash/stable/build/OpenSP-1.5.2' make: *** [Makefile:428: all] Error 2 *** Error during phase build of OpenSP: ########## Error running make -j 13 *** [1/12] For information, I tried doing the complete build on my September 2024 Msys2 setup and it all worked and that was with an updated gnucash-on-windows and jhbuild directory. Regards, Robert On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 at 21:41, flywire <flywi...@gmail.com <mailto:flywi...@gmail.com> > wrote: https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-guide/ch_python_bindings.html Starting with GnuCash version 2.4 you can write Python scripts to manipulate your financial data. Important The Python extensions are an optional feature which creates additional dependencies. To be able to use Python scripts, GnuCash must have been built with the cmake -DWITH_PYTHON=ON … option enabled, otherwise all what follows won’t work. At present this option is not enabled by default, so if you need this, you may have to compile GnuCash from source yourself. But some distributions offer it also as a separate package with a name like python[version]-GnuCash There are GnuCash Windows users who want to use the Python bindings which hasn't really been possible since you removed them from the distribution. Most users just want access to the binaries and don't care how they are created though some (including myself) would like to build them if the process was reasonable. (A GitHub workflow would be terrific.) Regards On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 at 14:00, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us <mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us> > wrote: 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. _______________________________________________ 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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