I attempted to run the script at:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-on-windows
To create a build environment for GnuCash on Windows where it failed at:
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Boostrap GnuCash Development on Wind
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> Looking more closely at this, it turned out to be a bug in the boostrap
> script. I have committed a fix for this just now. So if you start from the
> most recent version of the script, it should work even when not explicitly
> called from cscript.
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In looking at the parts that did work it
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> > Why not use CMake to do all the heavy lifting?
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> Probably because the CMake files are also used for Linux and MacOSX builds.
> There is no need to install msys under Linux or MacOSX since both Linux and
> MacOSX are Posix/UNIX build environments already and don't need a "fake"
> Posix/UNIX
