Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-16 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
Thanks everybody (keep up with suggestions) I will probably want a "C for Windows" sort of book if such exists. Not "how to program" in general but "how to interact with objects of type "window"". Any ideas? I have written some* C, but that was in a Linux environment and I wasn't (yet) interact

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-16 Thread Charles Day
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 9:18 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike, > You can download a copy of vim for windows from > > http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc > > I also like textpad which has syntax highlighting for source code files. > MSYS comes with the non-GUI form of vim, I believe. I just t

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-16 Thread Andreas Köhler
Hi, Am Samstag, den 15.03.2008, 17:57 -0400 schrieb Karim B: > Mike or Penny Novack wrote: > > Related to getting started. (now that my "post fire" life is more or > > less back to normal -- sorry for the long delay) > > > > I haven't ever done any "work" in the Windows environment before. > > W

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-16 Thread karimb
Mike, You can download a copy of vim for windows from http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc I also like textpad which has syntax highlighting for source code files. -- Original message -- From: Mike or Penny Novack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Andreas, > > I think we

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-16 Thread Andreas Köhler
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 16.03.2008, 09:28 -0500 schrieb Mike or Penny Novack: > Andreas, > > I think we are getting somewhere > > >Please take a look at > >http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/browser/gnucash/branches/gda-dev2/packaging/win32 > > > > > So I would want to get the compiler (and pres

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-16 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
Andreas, I think we are getting somewhere >Please take a look at >http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/browser/gnucash/branches/gda-dev2/packaging/win32 > > So I would want to get the compiler (and presumably including a link-editor) here? "This is achieved by using the mingw32/gcc compiler

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-16 Thread Andreas Köhler
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 16.03.2008, 07:38 -0500 schrieb Mike or Penny Novack: > > I haven't done much work on Gnucash on Linux or Windows but I was able > > to get it to compile under Windows by following the instructions on > > this page: > > > > http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows > > > > There a

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-16 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
>> > I haven't done much work on Gnucash on Linux or Windows but I was able > to get it to compile under Windows by following the instructions on > this page: > > http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows > > There are a few manual steps and then a script that downloads and > installs a bunch of too

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-15 Thread Karim B
Mike or Penny Novack wrote: > Related to getting started. (now that my "post fire" life is more or > less back to normal -- sorry for the long delay) > > I haven't ever done any "work" in the Windows environment before. > Which means I don't have a set of development tools. Anybody willing > to

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-15 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
Related to getting started. (now that my "post fire" life is more or less back to normal -- sorry for the long delay) I haven't ever done any "work" in the Windows environment before. Which means I don't have a set of development tools. Anybody willing to make some suggestions? What open source

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-05 Thread Nathan Buchanan
u can remove c:/soft/gnucash/* , add > > REPOS_URL="http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/branches/gda-dev2"; to > your > > custom.sh and re-run install.sh > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Karim B > > > > > >

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-05 Thread karimb
Ok, I can now build the gda-dev2 branch on my system. Thanks for the help on that. I then ran the dist.sh script to build the setup.exe, I had to add the following to the prepare function: _LIBGDA_UDIR=`unix_path $LIBGDA_DIR` to get dist.sh to run. I installed the setup.exe and gnucash

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-04 Thread Nathan Buchanan
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Karim B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Derek Atkins wrote: > > Try checking out the gda-dev2 branch in the "appropriate place" > > manually. > > > > -derek > > > > Quoting Karim Bahai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> Hi all, > >> I can successfully build gnucash using t

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-04 Thread Karim B
Derek Atkins wrote: > Try checking out the gda-dev2 branch in the "appropriate place" > manually. > > -derek > > Quoting Karim Bahai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Hi all, >> I can successfully build gnucash using the install.sh script file on my >> XP system. Now I want to try building the gda-dev2 br

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-04 Thread Derek Atkins
Try checking out the gda-dev2 branch in the "appropriate place" manually. -derek Quoting Karim Bahai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > I can successfully build gnucash using the install.sh script file on my > XP system. Now I want to try building the gda-dev2 branch as well. > > I grabbed everyt

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-04 Thread Nathan Buchanan
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Nathan Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Karim! > > You'll have to add the following line to your custom.sh > REPOS_URL="http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/branches/gda-dev2"; > > And you will also need to make sure that the packaging\win32 directory you >

building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-04 Thread Karim Bahai
Hi all, I can successfully build gnucash using the install.sh script file on my XP system. Now I want to try building the gda-dev2 branch as well. I grabbed everything from the packaging/win32 directory in the gda-dev2 branch, and placed it in the c:\soft\packaging directory. When I run the i