Mixing GnuCash with windows
Donald Henson
wepin at wepin.com
Fri Dec 12 12:06:52 CST 2003
Why don't you use the GnuCash RPM to install it? (Again, from someone
who's never done it.)
Don Henson
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 02:26, Lucas Simon-Chautemps wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am trying to get gnucash run on cygwin too. It sems a very convenient
> solution to me. It is easier than building a stand-alone windows gnucash,
> and you can still run it easily from windows.
>
> I'm not very experienced in compiling linux programs and even less with
> cygwin, but it seems to be possible.
>
> Actually, it is really easy to get gnome on cygwin :
> http://cygnome.sourceforge.net/install.html .
>
> The next part is to compile the missing packages. I gave it a try and
> bumped into a problem with cygwin gcc 3.3.1 (the configure uses the
> -fnative-struct option, which is deprecated and replaced by
> -mms-bitfields). I did not investigate further, probably my next step would
> be to downgrade gcc to a version providing -fnative-struct.
>
> I'm interested in any progress you achieve.
>
> bye
>
> lucas
>
>
>
> At 21:02 11/12/2003 -0500, Byron Weber Becker wrote:
>
> >I currently use windows and cygwin. I don't have Linux
> >or variants installed; if I did, it would be solely to
> >support GnuCash.
> >
> >So, the big questions...
> >
> >a) Are their alternatives for windows users besides
> > dual-booting windows and a unix variant?
> >
> >b) If not, am I correct that switching between GnuCash
> > and a Windows program involves rebooting the computer?
> >
> >
> >Thanks
> >Byron
> >
> >=========================================================================
> >Byron Weber Becker bwbecker at uwaterloo.ca
> >Department of Computer Science http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~bwbecker/
> >University of Waterloo (519) 888-4567 x4661
> >Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1 fax: (519) 885-1208
> >
> >
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