Compiling GnuCash on Windows

Thu Nov 2 06:31:28 EST 2006

Hello,

Yesterday got compiled and running version of GC on Win32.

Version: This copy was built from svn r15066 on 2006-11-01.

I did little modifications to custom.sh from

GTK_URL="$GNOME_WIN32_URL/gtk+/2.10/gtk+-2.10.3.zip"
GTK_DEV_URL="$GNOME_WIN32_URL/gtk+/2.10/gtk+-dev-2.10.3.zip"

to

GTK_URL="$GNOME_WIN32_URL/gtk+/2.10/gtk+-2.10.6.zip"
GTK_DEV_URL="$GNOME_WIN32_URL/gtk+/2.10/gtk+-dev-2.10.6.zip"

This solved me the problem (I think so) with crashing on filesistem 
operations.

Below are few more comments.

With regards,
Ivars

Christian Stimming wrote:
> I'd like to hear whether these things work, in case you have some time to 
> check them in detail: 
> - Creating a new file (with default account hierarchy)
>   
Ok.
> - Creating more accounts in that file
>   
Ok.
> - Adding transactions to these accounts
>   
Ok.
> - running reports, particularly "account summary", "income statement", 
> "balance sheet"
>   
Account Summary: OK
Income Statement: OK
Balance Sheet: OK
> - Changing some preferences (are these preserved when shutting down (without 
> crashing) and starting again?)
>   
Ok.

Other problems observed:
- I use Latvian language and location; there are problems with 
entering/showing specific latvian characters;
- Actions->Scheduled Transactions->  FAILS with this backtrace on screen 
within GDB:

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This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-mingw32"...
(gdb) run
Starting program: c:\gc\gnucash\bin/gnucash-bin.exe

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x6b072b01 in _libmsvcrt_a_iname ()
(gdb) backtrace
#0  0x6b072b01 in _libmsvcrt_a_iname ()
#1  0x100516f0 in _PRETTY_FUNCTION__.28 ()
#2  0x6b073034 in _libmsvcrt_a_iname ()
#3  0x6b046dd4 in __RUNTIME_PSEUDO_RELOC_LIST__ ()
#4  0x0077a51c in ?? ()
#5  0x005fc9f4 in ?? ()
#6  0x005e66f7 in ?? ()
#7  0x005e5b39 in ?? ()
#8  0x005e65eb in ?? ()
#9  0x005e66d6 in ?? ()
#10 0x00778000 in ?? ()
#11 0x63054ab6 in gnc_ui_scheduled_xaction_dialog_create ()
    at dialog-scheduledxaction.c:1250
#12 0x005e3935 in ?? ()
#13 0x005f6f35 in ?? ()
#14 0x005f7cde in ?? ()
#15 0x005f7f56 in ?? ()
#16 0x6048b824 in _libws2_32_a_iname ()
#17 0x005e3935 in ?? ()
#18 0x005f6f35 in ?? ()
#19 0x005f7cde in ?? ()
#20 0x005f7f56 in ?? ()
#21 0x606999e5 in _libws2_32_a_iname ()
#22 0x6058acec in _libws2_32_a_iname ()
#23 0x6058aff5 in _libws2_32_a_iname ()
#24 0x605774a2 in _libws2_32_a_iname ()
#25 0x005e3935 in ?? ()
#26 0x005f6b66 in ?? ()
#27 0x005f7a3c in ?? ()
#28 0x005f7f56 in ?? ()
#29 0x60699b74 in _libws2_32_a_iname ()
#30 0x60574651 in _libws2_32_a_iname ()
#31 0x6057593d in _libws2_32_a_iname ()
#32 0x6b07098e in _libmsvcrt_a_iname ()
#33 0x1001d8f7 in gpa_radiobutton_update ()
#34 0x1001edcb in gpa_p2f_entry_changed_cb ()
#35 0x1001efaa in gp_gc_set_font ()
#36 0x60574eae in _libws2_32_a_iname ()
#37 0x00784a12 in ?? ()
#38 0x00401746 in inner_main (closure=0x0, argc=1, argv=0xd16ea8)
    at gnucash-bin.c:493
#39 0x65e2564d in scm_boot_guile (argc=1, argv=0xd16ea8,
    main_func=0x401600 <inner_main>, closure=0x0) at init.c:635
#40 0x00401e26 in main (argc=1, argv=0xd16ea8) at gnucash-bin.c:549
(gdb)

- I also can't build gnucash.pot file as proposed by doc/TRANSLATION_HOWTO:

usr at host ~
$ cd /c/gc/repos/po/

usr at host /c/gc/repos/po
$ make gnucash.pot
INTLTOOL_EXTRACT=../intltool-extract srcdir=. ../intltool-update 
--gettext-package gnucash --pot

 *** The intltool-extract script wasn't found!
 *** Without it, intltool-update can not generate files.

>> Also, in the command prompt window is the following:
>>
>> gnucash: [E] "Failed to fork child process."
>>     
>
> This is probably because gnucash tries to save the file in compressed form, 
> which requires a separate gzip process that won't work on windows. In short, 
> in the preferences please uncheck the checkbox under General -> File -> 
> Compress file. Does saving work, then?
>
>   
Previously I have had problem to open data file created on Knoppix with 
GC 2.0.1. When I unziped that data file, I was able to open it on Win32 
with GC 2.0.2.
>> Is there a way to generate a backtrace in Windows?
>>     
>
> Yes, if you install gdb. It's available somewhere on mingw.org. Then you need 
> to modify the gnucash startup script so that it calls gdb instead of 
> gnucash.exe. Then, in gdb you start gnucash by "run". This is explained in 
> the file HACKING as well.
>   
Is the backtrace given above the one, which is needed? I mean, did I do 
correctly, to get backtarce?
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Christian
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