Re: GnuCash Windows Build Help

2024-11-08 Thread John Ralls
> On Nov 8, 2024, at 10:02 AM, Kevin Sanders wrote: > > Going forward, what will become the authoritative (and safe) source for > getting this file if Microsoft makes it no longer available? > I’d actually prefer to get rid of it and open our plain-HTML documentation either in the user’s de

Re: GnuCash Windows Build Help

2024-11-08 Thread Kevin Sanders
help. -Kevin From: gnucash-devel on behalf of Kevin Sanders Sent: Friday, November 8, 2024 12:37 PM To: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org Subject: Re: GnuCash Windows Build Help That did the trick. I downgraded the packages to the versions you specified in your post

Re: GnuCash Windows Build Help

2024-11-08 Thread Kevin Sanders
_ From: Robert Fewell <14ubo...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, November 8, 2024 11:54 AM To: Kevin Sanders Cc: GnuCash Development Subject: Re: GnuCash Windows Build Help If I recall when I get that sort of error it was a mismatch in webkit dependencies, did you see that section

Re: GnuCash Windows Build Help

2024-11-08 Thread John Ralls
> On Nov 8, 2024, at 02:29, ed...@billiau.net wrote: > > There was also a polite discussion on github about the policies in 2022 > https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/issues/10710 Liz, Thanks for that pointer, it’s saved me from wasting effort. I’ve been considering trying vcpkg as a repl

Re: GnuCash Windows Build Help

2024-11-08 Thread Robert Fewell
If I recall when I get that sort of error it was a mismatch in webkit dependencies, did you see that section on my post? Regards, Bob ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Re: GnuCash Windows Build Help

2024-11-08 Thread Kevin Sanders
] From: gnucash-devel on behalf of Kevin Sanders Sent: Friday, November 8, 2024 1:12 AM To: GnuCash Development Subject: Re: GnuCash Windows Build Help I found an archive of MSYS2 packages which contained the missing/removed 32-bit packages required to fini

Re: GnuCash Windows Build Help

2024-11-08 Thread edodd
On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 04:03:56 + Kevin Sanders wrote: > If anyone is interested, I found the news post that announced the > removal of 32-bit package from MSYS2 about a year ago: > > https://www.msys2.org/news/#2023-12-13-starting-to-drop-some-32-bit-packages > > -Kevin There was also a polit

Re: GnuCash Windows Build Help

2024-11-07 Thread Kevin Sanders
: GnuCash Development Subject: Re: GnuCash Windows Build Help If anyone is interested, I found the news post that announced the removal of 32-bit package from MSYS2 about a year ago: https://www.msys2.org/news/#2023-12-13-starting-to-drop-some-32-bit-packages -Kevin

Re: GnuCash Windows Build Help

2024-11-07 Thread Kevin Sanders
: Thursday, November 7, 2024 9:16 PM To: GnuCash Development Subject: Re: GnuCash Windows Build Help Exploring the MINGW-packages repo, I can see that 9 months ago a ton of packages were updated to remove 32-bit environments as targets. https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/commit

Re: GnuCash Windows Build Help

2024-11-07 Thread Kevin Sanders
To: GnuCash Development Subject: Re: GnuCash Windows Build Help Does anyone know how to obtain these packages for 32-bit (mingw32)? As far as I can tell, only their 64-bit (mingw64) counterparts are available on packages.msys2.org. But they must have been available for 32-bit at some point in

Re: GnuCash Windows Build Help

2024-11-07 Thread Kevin Sanders
mail.com> Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2024 3:17 PM To: Kevin Sanders Cc: GnuCash Development 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.

Re: GnuCash Windows Build Help

2024-11-07 Thread Kevin Sanders
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 Cc: GnuCash Development Subject: Re: GnuCash Windows

Re: GnuCash Windows Build Help

2024-11-07 Thread Robert Fewell
jhbuild.environment import setup_env, setup_env_defaults, addpath > File "/c/gcdev64/src/jhbuild.git/jhbuild/environment.py", line 24, in > > from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib > ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils' > >

Re: GnuCash Windows Build Help

2024-11-07 Thread Kevin Sanders
uild.git/jhbuild/environment.py", line 24, in from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils' From: John Ralls Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2024 12:24 PM To: Kevin Sanders Cc: GnuCash Development

Re: GnuCash Windows Build Help

2024-11-07 Thread John Ralls
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 pi