gnucash-on-windows master: Add section on what to do after building gnucash for the first time

Geert Janssens gjanssens at code.gnucash.org
Wed May 7 10:28:27 EDT 2014


Updated	 via  https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-on-windows/commit/35369a1f (commit)
	from  https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-on-windows/commit/c4a38665 (commit)



commit 35369a1fda66260ca28f976112179cb987869b8e
Author: Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be>
Date:   Wed May 7 16:28:19 2014 +0200

    Add section on what to do after building gnucash for the first time

diff --git a/README b/README
index e3a6f1a..71fb0ab 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -102,7 +102,43 @@ d. To generate a self-installing setup.exe file that contains *everything* run
 
    ./dist.sh
 
-More information is collected on http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows
+
+And next ?
+----------
+If you got here without errors then congratulations ! You have just completed
+your first successful GnuCash Build. To use this version you can launch the
+Windows GnuCash Installer you just built in step d. You can find this installer
+in c:\gcdev\gnucash\. It works just like any other installer for a piece of
+Windows software: you double-click it and follow the instructions that are
+displayed.
+
+At some point you may want to build GnuCash again to get updates. To do so you
+should start with updating the GnuCash source files as well as the scripts
+used to build GnuCash on Windows.
+
+The former are stored in c:\gcdev\gnucash.git
+The latter in c:\gcdev\gnucash-on-windows.git
+
+As the name suggests both are managed by a tool called git. Below is only a
+minimal explanation on how to update these directories.
+- 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 example shows how to update gnucash-on-windows.git but the same steps
+apply as well for gnucash.git.
+
+If you want to do more advanced things such as modifying code or building
+from a git branch other than the default 'master' branch you will need to
+familiarize yourself with git more intimately. A good starting point is
+http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Git
+
+In general more information with regards to building GnuCash on Windows is
+collected on http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows/Development
+
+At the time of this writing it should still be adapted to the new build
+scripts (2014-05-07).
 
 Known Issues/Things to improve
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Summary of changes:
 README | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)



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