GnuCash on windows - Instructions for giving it a try

[Christian Stimming]

Am Montag, 2. Oktober 2006 12:17 schrieb Thomas Arildsen:
> I tried following these instructions. First, I had to change
> 	OPENSSL_URL="http://slproweb.com/download/Win32OpenSSL-0_9_8c.exe"
> into
> 	OPENSSL_URL="http://slproweb.com/download/Win32OpenSSL-0_9_8d.exe"
> in custom.sh

Thanks for reporting this. Is fixed now in SVN.

> After this, the install ran fine for quite a while. However, now I run into
> this when it reaches Autotools:
>
> 	autom4te_perllibdir='..'/lib AUTOM4TE_CFG='../lib/autom4te.cfg'        
> ../bin/autom4te -B '..'/lib -B '..'/lib         --language M4sh --cache ''
> --melt ./autoconf.as -o autoconf.in Den angivne sti blev ikke fundet.
> 	autom4te: need GNU m4 1.4 or later: /bin/m4
>
> ("Den angivne sti blev ikke fundet" means "The specified path was not
> found" - it's Danish...) So it looks like m4 is not installed. 

Actually I don't think it's so much an error with "m4" but rather with some 
path names in general. First of all, are you sure you installed everything 
into a path name *without spaces*? No "c:\Program Files\" directory or 
whatever the Danish translation is? What is msys' bin dir exactly?

And at which package exactly was this? automake, autoconf, libtool? Can you 
post the config.log of that package (it's in $GLOBAL_DIR\tmp\automake-x.y.z 
or the other package name)? (Please send the file in gzip'd form.)

> However, a 
> bit further up the config logs:
>
> 	checking for gm4... no
> 	checking for gnum4... no
> 	checking for m4... /bin/m4
>
> I interpret this as m4 actually being found and I can also locate m4.exe
> under msys' bin dir, displaying version 1.4 when queried. Does anyone have
> an idea what goes wrong here?

No idea. I was able to compile all automake, autoconf, libtool just  
straightforward.

Christian