Re: Building on Windows from scratch, enable-python and some install-impl.sh vs custom.sh suggestions

2014-05-29 Thread John Ralls
On May 29, 2014, at 10:11 AM, Wm Tarr wrote: > On 15/05/2014 23:16, Wm Tarr wrote: >> >> My compile with enable-python is clean but the resulting .exe doesn't work, >> or rather, it doesn't work for long. >> >> trace logs are like this >> === >> * 21:34:24 INFO [main] System locale returned

Re: Building on Windows from scratch, enable-python and some install-impl.sh vs custom.sh suggestions

2014-05-29 Thread Wm Tarr
On 15/05/2014 23:16, Wm Tarr wrote: My compile with enable-python is clean but the resulting .exe doesn't work, or rather, it doesn't work for long. trace logs are like this === * 21:34:24 INFO [main] System locale returned English_United Kingdom.1252 * 21:34:24 INFO [main] Effective loc

Re: Building on Windows from scratch, enable-python and some install-impl.sh vs custom.sh suggestions

2014-05-15 Thread Wm Tarr
On 14/05/2014 00:42, Wm Tarr wrote: [ff to self] 1. there is a conflict between gcdev\gnucash\build\config.h and Python27\include\pyconfig.h 2. More seriously (and I think recently introduced) is a duplicate variable (I didn't make a note of the error msg) between Those are still outs

Re: Building on Windows from scratch, enable-python and some install-impl.sh vs custom.sh suggestions

2014-05-13 Thread Wm Tarr
On 10/05/2014 10:36, Geert Janssens wrote: On Friday 09 May 2014 16:51:06 Wm Tarr wrote: I'm working my way through getting python enabled with "Windows from scratch". Great ! Will you document your success ? When it happens, definitely. Made a lot of progress today, I can do an error fre

Re: Building on Windows from scratch, enable-python and some install-impl.sh vs custom.sh suggestions

2014-05-10 Thread Geert Janssens
On Friday 09 May 2014 16:51:06 Wm Tarr wrote: > I'm working my way through getting python enabled with "Windows from > scratch". > Great ! Will you document your success ? > Before anyone gets too excited it is early days but building on > Geert's work makes a lot more sense than previous methods

Re: RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-05-07 Thread John Ralls
On May 7, 2014, at 8:54 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > On Friday 02 May 2014 14:55:42 John Ralls wrote: then I get the dreaded unrecognized “l” format error, >>> >>> What is the dreaded unrecognized "l" format error ? I have never >>> seen it on my WinXP test system. In which step do you get

Re: RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-05-07 Thread Geert Janssens
On Friday 02 May 2014 14:55:42 John Ralls wrote: > > > then I get the dreaded unrecognized “l” format error, > > > > What is the dreaded unrecognized "l" format error ? I have never > > seen it on my WinXP test system. In which step do you get this ? > It’s that the ancient msvcrt.dll used by MinG

Re: RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-05-06 Thread Geert Janssens
On Friday 02 May 2014 14:55:42 John Ralls wrote: > On May 2, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Geert Janssens wrote: > > On Friday 02 May 2014 11:06:14 John Ralls wrote: > > > The HH installation check is still failing for me, as is the > > > installation. I ran it by hand and got it to install in c:\gcdev, > > >

Re: RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-05-02 Thread John Ralls
On May 2, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Geert Janssens wrote: > On Friday 02 May 2014 11:06:14 John Ralls wrote: > > The HH installation check is still failing for me, as is the > > installation. I ran it by hand and got it to install in c:\gcdev, but > > the check fails anyway: > > > I suspect it will fai

Re: RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-05-02 Thread Geert Janssens
On Friday 02 May 2014 11:06:14 John Ralls wrote: > The HH installation check is still failing for me, as is the > installation. I ran it by hand and got it to install in c:\gcdev, but > the check fails anyway: > I suspect it will fail because the html help install step runs pexports and dlltool o

Re: RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-05-02 Thread John Ralls
On May 1, 2014, at 10:21 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > On Thursday 01 May 2014 15:55:07 Geert Janssens wrote: >> Thank you for my feedback. It's nice to hear my effort is appreciated. >> > Sometimes I appear to write utter nonsense... Rereading the above I of course > wanted to > say > Thank yo

Re: RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-05-01 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 01 May 2014 15:55:07 Geert Janssens wrote: > Thank you for my feedback. It's nice to hear my effort is appreciated. > Sometimes I appear to write utter nonsense... Rereading the above I of course wanted to say Thank you for *your* feedback. Oh well... Too many distractions... Geert

Re: RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-05-01 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 01 May 2014 15:55:07 Geert Janssens wrote: > Thank you for my feedback. It's nice to hear my effort is appreciated. > > Your suggestion to move the installation of html help to the top is > very useful. I'll check if this is possible and if so will make the > necessary changes. > I h

Re: RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-05-01 Thread Geert Janssens
Thank you for my feedback. It's nice to hear my effort is appreciated. Your suggestion to move the installation of html help to the top is very useful. I'll check if this is possible and if so will make the necessary changes. Geert On Tuesday 29 April 2014 20:08:59 Wm Tarr wrote: > On 28/04/20

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-29 Thread John Ralls
On Apr 29, 2014, at 1:14 PM, Wm Tarr wrote: > On 28/04/2014 21:01, John Ralls wrote: >> On Apr 28, 2014, at 12:27 PM, Christian Stimming >> wrote: >> >>> Am Montag, 28. April 2014, 18:56:48 schrieb Geert Janssens: > For wild, not even in the oven yet, for the very long term, how about >>>

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-29 Thread Wm Tarr
On 28/04/2014 21:01, John Ralls wrote: On Apr 28, 2014, at 12:27 PM, Christian Stimming wrote: Am Montag, 28. April 2014, 18:56:48 schrieb Geert Janssens: For wild, not even in the oven yet, for the very long term, how about "build GC native in MSVC"? : :) Would require a copy of MSVC of cou

RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-04-29 Thread Wm Tarr
On 28/04/2014 10:09, Geert Janssens wrote: Lastly, how to use my repository ? - Download the bootstrap_win_dev.vbs script. It has some documentation at the beginning. Running it is mostly a double-click. This will prepare a c:\gcdev directory with the minimal tools required to run install.sh - S

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-29 Thread Geert Janssens
On Tuesday 29 April 2014 15:34:29 Wm Tarr wrote: > On 29/04/2014 15:16, Geert Janssens wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 April 2014 16:05:31 Geert Janssens wrote: > >> Thanks for testing. > >> > >> Svn shouldn't have been in there anymore. We're not using it for > >> gnucash development anymore. The quicke

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-29 Thread Wm Tarr
On 29/04/2014 15:16, Geert Janssens wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2014 16:05:31 Geert Janssens wrote: Thanks for testing. Svn shouldn't have been in there anymore. We're not using it for gnucash development anymore. The quickest way to get past this point in to remove the line add_step inst_git

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-29 Thread Geert Janssens
On Tuesday 29 April 2014 16:05:31 Geert Janssens wrote: > Thanks for testing. > > Svn shouldn't have been in there anymore. We're not using it for > gnucash development anymore. The quickest way to get past this point > in to remove the line add_step inst_git from install.sh > > I'll push a comp

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-29 Thread Geert Janssens
Thanks for testing. Svn shouldn't have been in there anymore. We're not using it for gnucash development anymore. The quickest way to get past this point in to remove the line add_step inst_git from install.sh I'll push a complete fix in a minute. Geert On Tuesday 29 April 2014 15:01:00 Wm

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-29 Thread Wm Tarr
On 29/04/2014 12:10, Geert Janssens wrote: Update: with the changes pushed today the build server should be able to create the nightly builds in the new environment. I emulated a build server locally by running daily_build.bat on my system. I downloaded bootstrap_win_dev.vbs earlier this aftern

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-29 Thread Geert Janssens
Update: with the changes pushed today the build server should be able to create the nightly builds in the new environment. I emulated a build server locally by running daily_build.bat on my system. Tag builds need some more work. Regards, Geert ___ g

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-29 Thread Geert Janssens
On Monday 28 April 2014 14:23:55 John Ralls wrote: > On Apr 28, 2014, at 1:10 PM, Geert Janssens wrote: > > I don't know if you have started this already but meanwhile I found > > a > > couple of bugs still (I pushed my most recent fix about 45 mins > > ago). > > > > You may want to pull my most

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-28 Thread John Ralls
On Apr 28, 2014, at 1:10 PM, Geert Janssens wrote: > I don't know if you have started this already but meanwhile I found a > couple of bugs still (I pushed my most recent fix about 45 mins ago). > > You may want to pull my most recent changes, remove the generated > custom.sh file and then re

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-28 Thread Geert Janssens
On Monday 28 April 2014 07:52:03 John Ralls wrote: > On Apr 28, 2014, at 2:09 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > > This weekend I have spent more time on getting the Windows build > > running with more recent mingw compilers (gcc 4.8). > > > > This is a continuation of the work I have started in Decembe

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-28 Thread John Ralls
On Apr 28, 2014, at 12:27 PM, Christian Stimming wrote: > Am Montag, 28. April 2014, 18:56:48 schrieb Geert Janssens: >>> For wild, not even in the oven yet, for the very long term, how about >>> "build GC native in MSVC"? >> : >> :) Would require a copy of MSVC of course. > > Yeah, but this do

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-28 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Montag, 28. April 2014, 18:56:48 schrieb Geert Janssens: > > For wild, not even in the oven yet, for the very long term, how about > > "build GC native in MSVC"? > : > :) Would require a copy of MSVC of course. Yeah, but this doesn't have to be costly: For our purposes, the free (as in beer) "

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-28 Thread Geert Janssens
On Monday 28 April 2014 17:54:15 Christian Stimming wrote: > On 28. April 2014 16:52:03 MESZ, John Ralls wrote: > >For wild, not even in the oven yet, for the very long term, how about > >"build GC native in MSVC"? > > This isn't as weird as it sounds: I've been able to compile and run > the cut

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-28 Thread Geert Janssens
On Monday 28 April 2014 07:52:03 John Ralls wrote: > On Apr 28, 2014, at 2:09 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > > This weekend I have spent more time on getting the Windows build > > running with more recent mingw compilers (gcc 4.8). > > > > This is a continuation of the work I have started in Decembe

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-28 Thread Christian Stimming (mobil)
On 28. April 2014 16:52:03 MESZ, John Ralls wrote: > >For wild, not even in the oven yet, for the very long term, how about >"build GC native in MSVC"? This isn't as weird as it sounds: I've been able to compile and run the cutecash experiment in msvc successfully, at the time. Hence, with cma

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-28 Thread John Ralls
On Apr 28, 2014, at 2:09 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > This weekend I have spent more time on getting the Windows build running > with more recent mingw compilers (gcc 4.8). > > This is a continuation of the work I have started in December last year. > > Current status: > - I have forked packag

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-28 Thread Geert Janssens
I just noticed I lost a few patches outside the packaging/win32 directory by setting up an independent repository. I'll add those to the gnucash directory shortly. Geert On Monday 28 April 2014 11:09:39 Geert Janssens wrote: > This weekend I have spent more time on getting the Windows build > r

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-28 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 16 January 2014 14:26:41 Geert Janssens wrote: > Gary, > > While looking at your changes I noticed you changed two lines in > the vbs script. > > One is that you added my repository/branch in a comment. > That's ok and makes it easier for others to start. > > The second is to install

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - difftime problem found ( was datediff )

2014-01-27 Thread Derek Atkins
John Ralls writes: >> This is the "year 2037" problem, where 32-bit unsigned time rolls over. >> However there is also a "Year 2106" problem, which is where 32-bit >> unsigned time rolls over. I think there *are* some systems where it's >> unsigned, but still 32 bits. Or at least there are apps

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - difftime problem found ( was datediff )

2014-01-27 Thread Gary Bilkus
On 27/01/2014 17:20, John Ralls wrote: On Jan 27, 2014, at 8:29 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: Gary Bilkus writes: Given that time_t is always a signed integer value, wouldn't return (double)(time1-time2) just work anyway, at least as far as a patch for mingw is concerned? Is it always a signed

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - difftime problem found ( was datediff )

2014-01-27 Thread John Ralls
On Jan 27, 2014, at 8:29 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Gary Bilkus writes: > >> Given that time_t is always a signed integer value, wouldn't >> >> return (double)(time1-time2) >> >> just work anyway, at least as far as a patch for mingw is concerned? > > Is it always a signed integer? Can't it

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - difftime problem found ( was datediff )

2014-01-27 Thread Derek Atkins
Gary Bilkus writes: > Given that time_t is always a signed integer value, wouldn't > > return (double)(time1-time2) > > just work anyway, at least as far as a patch for mingw is concerned? Is it always a signed integer? Can't it sometimes be unsigned? This is the "year 2037" problem, where 32-

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - difftime problem found ( was datediff )

2014-01-27 Thread Derek Atkins
John Ralls writes: >> Hold on though. These solutions don't call MSVCRT at all, so why >> does that matter? And if it did, why would your solution work >> anyway, given that sizeof is evaluated at compile time? (leaving >> aside Derek's point that it might not compile cleanly. They are calling

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - difftime problem found ( was datediff )

2014-01-25 Thread John Ralls
On Jan 25, 2014, at 8:09 AM, Gary Bilkus wrote: > On 25/01/2014 15:37, John Ralls wrote: >> On Jan 25, 2014, at 5:49 AM, Gary Bilkus wrote: >> >>> On 24/01/2014 17:08, Derek Atkins wrote: John Ralls writes: > if (sizeof(time_t) == 8) > return (double)((int64)time1 - (int6

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - difftime problem found ( was datediff )

2014-01-25 Thread Gary Bilkus
On 25/01/2014 15:37, John Ralls wrote: On Jan 25, 2014, at 5:49 AM, Gary Bilkus wrote: On 24/01/2014 17:08, Derek Atkins wrote: John Ralls writes: if (sizeof(time_t) == 8) return (double)((int64)time1 - (int64)time2); else return (double)((int32)time1 - (int32)time2); This code prob

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - difftime problem found ( was datediff )

2014-01-25 Thread John Ralls
On Jan 25, 2014, at 5:49 AM, Gary Bilkus wrote: > On 24/01/2014 17:08, Derek Atkins wrote: >> John Ralls writes: >> >>> if (sizeof(time_t) == 8) >>> return (double)((int64)time1 - (int64)time2); >>> else >>> return (double)((int32)time1 - (int32)time2); >> This code probably wouldn't compi

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - difftime problem found ( was datediff )

2014-01-25 Thread Gary Bilkus
On 24/01/2014 17:08, Derek Atkins wrote: John Ralls writes: if (sizeof(time_t) == 8) return (double)((int64)time1 - (int64)time2); else return (double)((int32)time1 - (int32)time2); This code probably wouldn't compile cleanly. It would complain about casting to different sizes. Even t

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - datediff problem found

2014-01-24 Thread Derek Atkins
John Ralls writes: > if (sizeof(time_t) == 8) > return (double)((int64)time1 - (int64)time2); > else > return (double)((int32)time1 - (int32)time2); This code probably wouldn't compile cleanly. It would complain about casting to different sizes. Even though theoretically the compiler shoul

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - datediff problem found

2014-01-24 Thread John Ralls
On Jan 24, 2014, at 12:33 AM, Gary Bilkus wrote: > On 23/01/2014 22:47, John Ralls wrote: >> On Jan 23, 2014, at 7:23 AM, Gary Bilkus wrote: >> >>> I've done some more testing and found a problem with libofx and possibly >>> aqbanking ( which I don't use ). It's easy enough to work round, but

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - datediff problem found

2014-01-24 Thread Gary Bilkus
On 23/01/2014 22:47, John Ralls wrote: On Jan 23, 2014, at 7:23 AM, Gary Bilkus wrote: I've done some more testing and found a problem with libofx and possibly aqbanking ( which I don't use ). It's easy enough to work round, but I'm not sure what the correct fix should be on Windows The

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - datediff problem found

2014-01-23 Thread John Ralls
On Jan 23, 2014, at 7:23 AM, Gary Bilkus wrote: > I've done some more testing and found a problem with libofx and possibly > aqbanking ( which I don't use ). It's easy enough to work round, but I'm not > sure what the correct fix should be on Windows > > > The problem is that there's a know

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-18 Thread Gary Bilkus
On 18/01/2014 09:53, Geert Janssens wrote: On Friday 17 January 2014 07:30:00 John Ralls wrote: > > > > OK Geert, > > I think I have what you want at > > http://www.greenwheel.com/publicFiles/rebase-patches.zip Let me > > know if this works for you. > > Not being a git expert, it's possibl

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-18 Thread Geert Janssens
On Friday 17 January 2014 07:30:00 John Ralls wrote: > > > > OK Geert, > > I think I have what you want at > > http://www.greenwheel.com/publicFiles/rebase-patches.zip Let me > > know if this works for you. > > Not being a git expert, it's possible I've not quite done the right > > thing, but I th

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-17 Thread John Ralls
On Jan 17, 2014, at 7:39 AM, John Ralls wrote: > > On Jan 16, 2014, at 7:53 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > >> On Thursday 16 January 2014 07:49:53 John Ralls wrote: >>> On Jan 16, 2014, at 5:23 AM, Geert Janssens >>> wrote: 3. Apply your patches and ignore those that are already there is

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-17 Thread John Ralls
On Jan 16, 2014, at 7:53 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > On Thursday 16 January 2014 07:49:53 John Ralls wrote: > > On Jan 16, 2014, at 5:23 AM, Geert Janssens > > wrote: > > > 3. Apply your patches and ignore those that are already there is > > > also correct. Then before committing anything it's

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-17 Thread John Ralls
On Jan 17, 2014, at 7:30 AM, John Ralls wrote: > > On Jan 17, 2014, at 5:57 AM, Gary Bilkus wrote: > >> On 16/01/2014 13:23, Geert Janssens wrote: >>> >>> On Thursday 16 January 2014 12:14:49 Gary Bilkus wrote: >>> >>> So just to make sure I understand exactly what you need. >>>

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-17 Thread John Ralls
On Jan 17, 2014, at 5:57 AM, Gary Bilkus wrote: > On 16/01/2014 13:23, Geert Janssens wrote: >> >> On Thursday 16 January 2014 12:14:49 Gary Bilkus wrote: >> >> > >> >> > So just to make sure I understand exactly what you need. >> >> > >> >> > 1. I should get the gnucash.git repository from

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-17 Thread Gary Bilkus
On 16/01/2014 13:23, Geert Janssens wrote: On Thursday 16 January 2014 12:14:49 Gary Bilkus wrote: > > So just to make sure I understand exactly what you need. > > 1. I should get the gnucash.git repository from > git://github.com:gjanssens/gnucash.git > 2. I should git branch -t mingw ori

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-17 Thread Gary Bilkus
On 16/01/2014 15:38, Geert Janssens wrote: On Thursday 16 January 2014 15:06:55 Gary Bilkus wrote: > On 16/01/2014 13:26, Geert Janssens wrote: > > Gary, > > > > While looking at your changes I noticed you changed two lines in the > > vbs script. > > > > One is that you added my repositor

Re: Building on Windows from scratch

2014-01-16 Thread Geert Janssens
(Oops, this was meant to go to the list not Gary directly) On Thursday 16 January 2014 12:06:15 Gary Bilkus wrote: > On 16/01/2014 11:53, Geert Janssens wrote: > > On Thursday 26 December 2013 17:41:14 Geert Janssens wrote: > > > On Wednesday 25 December 2013 18:46:32 Gary Bilkus wrote: > > > > On

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-16 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 16 January 2014 07:49:53 John Ralls wrote: > On Jan 16, 2014, at 5:23 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > > 3. Apply your patches and ignore those that are already there is > > also correct. Then before committing anything it's worth > > considering which changes logically belong together and

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-16 Thread John Ralls
On Jan 16, 2014, at 5:23 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > 3. Apply your patches and ignore those that are already there is also > correct. Then before > committing anything it's worth considering which changes logically belong > together and check > these changes in in separate commits. 'git add -

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-16 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 16 January 2014 15:06:55 Gary Bilkus wrote: > On 16/01/2014 13:26, Geert Janssens wrote: > > Gary, > > > > While looking at your changes I noticed you changed two lines in the > > vbs script. > > > > One is that you added my repository/branch in a comment. That's ok > > and makes it e

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-16 Thread Gary Bilkus
On 16/01/2014 13:26, Geert Janssens wrote: Gary, While looking at your changes I noticed you changed two lines in the vbs script. One is that you added my repository/branch in a comment. That's ok and makes it easier for others to start. The second is to install msys-patch. Is there a rea

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-16 Thread Geert Janssens
Gary, While looking at your changes I noticed you changed two lines in the vbs script. One is that you added my repository/branch in a comment. That's ok and makes it easier for others to start. The second is to install msys-patch. Is there a reason you do this in the vbs script and not in in

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-16 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 16 January 2014 12:14:49 Gary Bilkus wrote: > > So just to make sure I understand exactly what you need. > > 1. I should get the gnucash.git repository from > git://github.com:gjanssens/gnucash.git > 2. I should git branch -t mingw origin/mingw-rebasing and check out > that branch > 3

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-16 Thread Gary Bilkus
On 16/01/2014 11:43, Geert Janssens wrote: On Thursday 16 January 2014 11:10:30 Geert Janssens wrote: Gary, Thanks for all your updates. Today I found some time to check which of your fixes I should still add to my windows branch, but got lost in your patch. It looks like you are generating a p

Re: Building on Windows from scratch

2014-01-16 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 26 December 2013 17:41:14 Geert Janssens wrote: > On Wednesday 25 December 2013 18:46:32 Gary Bilkus wrote: > > On 24/12/2013 18:25, Gary Bilkus wrote: > > > - There seems to be a version issue with GWENHYFAR_VERSION > > > It builds OK but every time I restart it rebuilds. For some reas

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-16 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 16 January 2014 11:10:30 Geert Janssens wrote: > > Gary, > > Thanks for all your updates. Today I found some time to check which of > your fixes I should still add to my windows branch, but got lost in > your patch. It looks like you are generating a patch to be applied to > the curre

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-16 Thread Geert Janssens
On Friday 10 January 2014 17:41:15 Gary Bilkus wrote: > On 10/01/2014 15:03, John Ralls wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2014, at 11:13 PM, Gary Bilkus wrote: > >> Well, interestingly enough, the problem is not directly with the > >> compiler optimizer. It's with the configure test for strncasecmp. > >> This

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-10 Thread Gary Bilkus
On 10/01/2014 15:03, John Ralls wrote: On Jan 9, 2014, at 11:13 PM, Gary Bilkus wrote: Well, interestingly enough, the problem is not directly with the compiler optimizer. It's with the configure test for strncasecmp. This test fails on mingw in its current incarnation because guile uses a s

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-10 Thread John Ralls
On Jan 9, 2014, at 11:13 PM, Gary Bilkus wrote: > Well, interestingly enough, the problem is not directly with the compiler > optimizer. It's with the configure test for strncasecmp. This test fails on > mingw in its current incarnation because guile uses a standard test for the > function, b

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

2014-01-09 Thread Gary Bilkus
Well, interestingly enough, the problem is not directly with the compiler optimizer. It's with the configure test for strncasecmp. This test fails on mingw in its current incarnation because guile uses a standard test for the function, but on mingw strncasecmp is actually a cpp definition. As a

RE: Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem

2014-01-09 Thread Gary Bilkus
Hmm, The problem appears to be with the compiler optimiser doing something too aggressive, If I manually recompile guile with -O0 instead of -O2 the problem seems to go away. This could be caused by one of the new optimisations in the more recent versions of gcc in which case it could start to

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - SUCCESS

2014-01-08 Thread Gary Bilkus
I have written up the procedure which as of today is working to build gnucash 2.6 from scratch on windows and updated http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows/Development It would be really nice if the patch file I have created along with my modified version of geert's vbs file could find their wa

Re: Building on Windows from scratch

2014-01-08 Thread Kim Wood
Well done Garry. I am very interested in attempting to build a windows version too. Can you post on the forum when you have updated the wiki? Thank you for persisting. Kim -- View this message in context: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Building-on-Windows-from-scratch-tp4666302p466696

Re: Building on Windows from scratch

2014-01-07 Thread Gary Bilkus
On 07/01/2014 18:16, Derek Atkins wrote: Gary Bilkus writes: UPDATE..The problem with the modules appears to be a slight red-herring to do with having 2.6 around.If I build what seems to be 2.5.something based on the git repository from geert, with all the changes I've mentioned, I can now

Re: Building on Windows from scratch

2014-01-07 Thread Derek Atkins
Gary Bilkus writes: > UPDATE..The problem with the modules appears to be a slight > red-herring to do with having 2.6 around.If I build what seems to be > 2.5.something based on the git repository from geert, with all the > changes I've mentioned, I can now get gnucash to compile and run ( at

Re: Building on Windows from scratch

2014-01-07 Thread Gary Bilkus
On 07/01/2014 13:52, Gary Bilkus wrote: On 28/12/2013 08:16, Gary Bilkus wrote: Thanks Geert, I've got a bit furtherthe program now starts and then dies after showing a splash screen. I found a gnucash-launcher.cmd script which didn't quite work, because it was missing references to libxsl

Re: Building on Windows from scratch

2014-01-07 Thread Gary Bilkus
On 28/12/2013 08:16, Gary Bilkus wrote: Thanks Geert, I've got a bit furtherthe program now starts and then dies after showing a splash screen. I found a gnucash-launcher.cmd script which didn't quite work, because it was missing references to libxslt enchant and libsoup If I add those ( bi

Re: Building on Windows from scratch

2013-12-28 Thread Gary Bilkus
Nice you got it to compile ! With my local modifications I got stuck in engine/test with this error: /bin/sh ../../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -I. -I/c/soft/gnucash.git/src/engine/test -I../../.. - I/c/soft/gnucash.git/src/engine/ -DTESTPROG=test_engine -mms-bitfields - Ic:/soft/gnome/

Re: Building on Windows from scratch

2013-12-27 Thread Geert Janssens
On Friday 27 December 2013 08:30:34 Gary Bilkus wrote: > > > A bit further now. > > > > > > If I change the REL_REPOS_DIR to $GLOBAL_DIR\\gnucash.git > > > > Hi Geert, > I was indeed running install.sh - the version I found in > packaging/win32 The reference to REL_REPOS_DIR is actuall in >

Re: Building on Windows from scratch

2013-12-27 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, Gary Bilkus writes: > Anyway, I've made some more progress. The -no-undefined problem is > caused because more recent versions of gcc apparently don't understand > that flag, and don't ignore it but just fail. So although you need to > pass it to libtool, you mustn't pass it direct to gcc.an

Re: Building on Windows from scratch

2013-12-27 Thread Gary Bilkus
> A bit further now. > If I change the REL_REPOS_DIR to $GLOBAL_DIR\\gnucash.git This doesn't make sense to me. REL_REPOS_DIR is not used in the install script, but only in the nightly build scripts. Which script are you running exactly to build gnucash ? It should be install.sh > the

Re: Building on Windows from scratch

2013-12-26 Thread Geert Janssens
On Wednesday 25 December 2013 18:46:32 Gary Bilkus wrote: > On 24/12/2013 18:25, Gary Bilkus wrote: > >> > So it carried on until > >> > > >> > extracting libdbi-0.8.4.tar.gz ... done > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > Hunk #2 FAILED at 154 > >> > > >> > 1 out of 4 hunks FAILED > >> > > >> >

Re: Building on Windows from scratch

2013-12-25 Thread Gary Bilkus
On 24/12/2013 18:25, Gary Bilkus wrote: > So it carried on until > extracting libdbi-0.8.4.tar.gz ... done > > Hunk #2 FAILED at 154 > 1 out of 4 hunks FAILED > > Will look further later. Odd I could build. But then again I did so many rebuilds, perhaps I worked with a differen

Re: Building on Windows from scratch

2013-12-24 Thread Gary Bilkus
> So it carried on until > extracting libdbi-0.8.4.tar.gz ... done > > Hunk #2 FAILED at 154 > 1 out of 4 hunks FAILED > > Will look further later. Odd I could build. But then again I did so many rebuilds, perhaps I worked with a different patch than what I eventually committed.

Re: Building on Windows from scratch

2013-12-24 Thread Geert Janssens
On Tuesday 24 December 2013 09:52:16 Gary Bilkus wrote: > > Thanks Geert. > I've tried as you suggested. There's one typo above I think > REPOS_URL = "git://github.com:gjanssens/gnucash.git" > didn't work for me, but git://github.com/gjanssens/gnucash.git > did. > Yes, I started from my own remot

Re: Building on Windows from scratch

2013-12-24 Thread Gary Bilkus
I'm sorry I didn't mention this more clearly. The documentation is not updated yet. So the information in the README file is still for the old build process. This is how I think you should proceed (I'm assuming you stick with the default path names): - clear every trace of the previous gnu

Re: Building on Windows from scratch

2013-12-23 Thread Geert Janssens
On Monday 23 December 2013 16:04:56 Gary Bilkus wrote: > Hi Geert, > I've downloaded your repository and started trying to follow the > instructions in the README in /packaging/win32 > But I'm not getting very far > 1. The location of MSYS needs to change from: > https://sourceforge.net/proje

Re: Building on Windows from scratch

2013-12-23 Thread Gary Bilkus
On 21/12/2013 14:44, Geert Janssens wrote: On Friday 20 December 2013 18:34:50 Gary Bilkus wrote: > Hi Geert, > > If you're already well into solving the problem, I'd be very happy to > try and help with that effort. I will take a look at your repository > at some point during the next f

Re: Building on Windows from scratch

2013-12-21 Thread Geert Janssens
On Friday 20 December 2013 18:34:50 Gary Bilkus wrote: > Hi Geert, > > If you're already well into solving the problem, I'd be very happy to > try and help with that effort. I will take a look at your repository > at some point during the next few days. > Would you expect this to work under 64 b

Re: Building on Windows from scratch

2013-12-20 Thread Derek Atkins
Gary Bilkus writes: > I will probably set up a dedicated linux box to do any actual > development, but the end result has to work for other people who only > have Windows knowledge and are not willing to mess around with virtual > systems etc. > >   > Since I have no right to expect that any chan

RE: Building on Windows from scratch

2013-12-20 Thread Gary Bilkus
Hi Geert, If you're already well into solving the problem, I'd be very happy to try and help with that effort. I will take a look at your repository at some point during the next few days. Would you expect this to work under 64 bit versions of Windows, or are the other comments about this stil

Re: Building on Windows from scratch

2013-12-20 Thread Geert Janssens
On Friday 20 December 2013 14:25:26 Gary Bilkus wrote: > I will probably set up a dedicated linux box to do any actual > development, but the end result has to work for other people who only > have Windows knowledge and are not willing to mess around with > virtual systems etc. > > Since I have

RE: Building on Windows from scratch

2013-12-20 Thread Gary Bilkus
I will probably set up a dedicated linux box to do any actual development, but the end result has to work for other people who only have Windows knowledge and are not willing to mess around with virtual systems etc.   Since I have no right to expect that any changes I make will end up in the of

Re: Building on Windows from scratch

2013-12-20 Thread Colin Law
On 20 December 2013 12:59, Gary Bilkus wrote: > Thanks for the info. > > I will set up a windows 32 bit virtual machine and try to follow the > instructions one by one. Should I report each problem to this list or > privately to somewhere else. I'm happy to put in the work to ensure that the >

RE: Building on Windows from scratch

2013-12-20 Thread Gary Bilkus
Thanks for the info. I will set up a windows 32 bit virtual machine and try to follow the instructions one by one. Should I report each problem to this list or privately to somewhere else. I'm happy to put in the work to ensure that the instructions are clear. BTW, the reason I want to be able

Re: Building on Windows from scratch

2013-12-19 Thread Christian Stimming
Dear Gary, I've used those instructions several times, and quite successfully each time (although it takes hours). Am Donnerstag, 19. Dezember 2013, 09:36:28 schrieb Gary Bilkus: > Has anyone actually succeeded in following the instructions on the wiki page > http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Window

Re: Building on Windows from scratch

2013-12-19 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, Gary Bilkus writes: > Has anyone actually succeeded in following the instructions on the > wiki page http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows/Development from > scratch and ending up with a working gnucash. Or is there some other > hidden set of instructions. > >   > I have tried to build gn