Building on Windows - status update

[Geert Janssens]

On Wednesday 07 May 2014 16:12:36 Geert Janssens wrote:
> > Other thoughts:
> > 
> > As things are changing fairly quickly at the moment is the
> > presumption in bootstrap_win_dev.vbs
> > that I've got both
> > 
> >   gnucash-on-windows.git
> >   gnucash.git
> > 
> > a good sign that they don't need to be updated?
I didn't answer this very clearly. The bootstrap script won't update 
anything by itself. I will only set up a minimal environment to start 
from. This install script on the other hand will update any dependency 
that is not up to date anymore. It will however not update the sources 
as that should be a user choice. The sources are in the two directories 
above and I explained in my previous mail how they could be updated.

The idea behind this is that most people interested in building gnucash 
themselves will do so to make changes or test versions that are not 
available. In most of these cases the version to start from should be 
determined by the user, not by the build system. I would even be very 
disturbing if the build system decided on its own to update the sources 
in this case.

If you really want automatic updates you could run build_daily.sh in the 
buildserver directory instead of install.sh/dist.sh. This script is 
written to build the most recent version of gnucash completely 
unattended at regular intervals and will include updating both 
repositories.

> > It isn't as though
> > they are particularly large.  At the moment I'm grabbing
> > gnucash-on-windows every time I build but leaving gnucash alone as
> > that will have changed less and it is the Win bit we're playing
> > with.
> > 
> >  Good practice or not?
> 
> None of the recent changes would require a rerun of
> bootstrap_win_dev.vbs. There may be one change regarding html help but
> I haven't decided on this yet.
> 
> There is also no need to grab the two repositories again. Instead you
> can use git to pull in the updates.
> 
> You can do this as follows (example is for gnucash-on-windows.git but
> works the same way for gnucash.git):
> - Open a Windows Explorer
> - Right-click on the gnucash-on-windows.git directory
> - Select Git Bash. This will open a command prompt.
> - Enter one command: git pull
> - Close the command prompt again
> 
> This should probably be added in the README file...
> 
It is now :)

Geert