Win32 Build error - cannot find swig-runtime.h

Mon Feb 26 19:51:14 EST 2007

Greetings,

The error I am getting is

"It looks like you are NOT building from Subversion
but I cannot find swig-runtime.h.  Check your PATH
and make sure we can find svnversion in your PATH!
Either that or contact gnucash-devel at gnucash.org because
the tarball you downloaded is broken."

Can you tranlate the above paragraph for me, so that I can at least
begin to know where I want to try re-compiling or looking for a missing
file, etc? Any ideas?

Thanks.

Paul J Crown

These are my gnucash build steps for Win32 binary on February 26, 2007.

I had previously installed gnucash using
gnucash-2.0.99-svn-r15480-setup.exe,
however, I was getting a report error when printing invoices because I
have jobs associated with each invoice.  This bug was reported at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410407 and I saw that it was
fixed in r15640.  So, I figured I need to compile my own if I wanted to
print soon.

I read http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows#Q:_Where_is_the_binary.3F and
http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2006-September/018588.html
and
http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk/packaging/win32/README and
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows/Old_Notes

I'm on a HP Pavilion dv6000 laptop. It has an AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile
processor running 1.81GHz and 2GB of RAM.  The operating system is WinXP
Home 2002 SP2. I used Firefox 2.0.0.1{1} and extension WindizUpdate
0.7{2} to update WinXP from http://windowsupdate.62nds.com/ as of
February 24, 2007.

{1}
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-2.0.0.2&os=win&lang=en-US or
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/portablefirefox/Firefox_Portable_2.0.0.1_en-us.paf.exe

{2}
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/extensions/go_to_windizupdate/go_to_windizupdate-0.7-fx.xpi

On drive P: I create the directories from cmd box (i.e. Start-> Run-> cmd):

P:
mkdir \Develop
mkdir \Develop\gnucash
mkdir \Develop\gnucash\packaging
mkdir \Develop\gnucash\downloads
mkdir \Develop\gnucash\msys
mkdir \Develop\gnucash\mingw

With Firefox, I went to
http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk/packaging/win32/
I downloaded each of the following into P:\Develop\gnucash\packaging.  I
assume that the files in this directory may change, but here is what
existed today.

http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk/packaging/win32/README
http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk/packaging/win32/create_cross_mingw.sh
http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk/packaging/win32/custom.sh
http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk/packaging/win32/dist.sh
http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk/packaging/win32/exetype.pl
http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk/packaging/win32/functions
http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk/packaging/win32/gnucash.iss.in
http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk/packaging/win32/goffice-0.3.0-patch.diff
http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk/packaging/win32/goffice-0.3.2-patch.diff
http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk/packaging/win32/install.sh
http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk/packaging/win32/libofx-0.8.3-patch.diff
http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk/packaging/win32/opensp-1.5.2-patch.diff
http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk/packaging/win32/pi.sh
http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk/packaging/win32/reset.sh

I renamed README and functions because when I downloaded them they ended
up with .html extensions.  So from my cmd box,

cd \Develop\gnucash\packaging
ren README.html README
ren functions.html functions

Next, I opened and edited custom.sh in Wordpad.  On the fifth line, I
changed c:\\soft to read p:\\Develop\\gnucash and saved custom.sh back
in P:\Develop\gnucash\packaging

Now, I downloaded MSYS{3}, wget{4}, and Qt{5} and saved each in
P:\Develop\gnucash\downloads

{3} http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/MSYS-1.0.10.exe?download
{4} http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/wget-1.9.1-mingwPORT.tar.bz2?download
{5} ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source/qt-win-opensource-4.2.2-mingw.exe

Next, I execute (by double-click) qt-win-opensource-4.2.2-mingw.exe.  It
asks for an install directory and I enter P:\Develop\gnucash\Qt\4.2.2
Then I get a warning telling me that it can't find MingW install and
wants to know what directory to use.  I enter P:\Develop\gnucash\mingw
and let the install finish.  (I know that Mingw is not there now, but it
will be).

I execute (by double-click) MSYS-1.0.10.exe.  It asks me where to
install and I enter P:\Develop\gnucash\msys.  At somepoint it shows
which tools are to be installed and the default it shows is just 'gcc'.
 I also click on 'g++' and make sure that 'Make' is not checked, then
just let the install finish.  After installing, a cmd box asks if
I want to normalize, and I answered N.

At this point, I close the various windows open on my computer and see
the 'M' icon on my desktop.  I execute MSYS (by double-clicking this
icon) and get a yellow window with my computer name and then a '$'.

At this $ prompt, I enter

export QTDIR=/p/Develop/gnucash/Qt/4.2.2
export aqbanking_with_qt=yes
/p/Develop/gnucash/packaging/install.sh

The compile takes hours, and I run into a couple of failures.  One
failure shows it trying repeatedly to find a website that does not
respond.  I discover my router to have had a problem and reboot it.  I
end up rebooting my laptop and restarting MSYS and at the prompt enter
again:

export QTDIR=/p/Develop/gnucash/Qt/4.2.2
export aqbanking_with_qt=yes
/p/Develop/gnucash/packaging/install.sh

This time it skips over sections that are already complete.  My next
error was due to the firewall on my computer.  I use Outpost Firewall
Pro ver. 4.0.971.7030 (584){6} and have it set to ask permission
whenever a new program makes a DNS request or calls another application.
 I had been watching and authorizing the dozens of apps that make a
request during this compile, but I was too slow to respond to one of
them and the compile errored with the message "giving up".  I just
restarted with:

/p/Develop/gnucash/packaging/install.sh

{6} http://www.agnitum.com/download/OutpostProInstall64.exe or
    http://www.agnitum.com/download/OutpostProInstall.exe

And again, it skips over sections that were already complete.

As I approach the end, I run into an error:

############################################################
###  svn update in p:\Develop\gnucash\gnucash\repos
############################################################
At revision 15670.

############################################################
###  GnuCash
############################################################
Creating ./po/POTFILES.in ...
Creating ./aclocal.m4 ...
Running glib-gettextize --force --copy ...
GnuCash note: Please ignore the output of glib-gettextize below!
Copying file mkinstalldirs
Copying file po/Makefile.in.in
. . . . . . .
. . . . . . .
. . . . . . .
checking for native Win32... yes
checking for Win32 platform in general... yes
checking for the tm_gmtoff member of struct tm... no
checking if scanf supports %lld conversions... no
checking if scanf supports %qd conversions... no
checking if scanf supports %I64d conversions... yes
checking for ../repos/src/swig-runtime.h... no
configure: error:

It looks like you are NOT building from Subversion
but I cannot find swig-runtime.h.  Check your PATH
and make sure we can find svnversion in your PATH!
Either that or contact gnucash-devel at gnucash.org because
the tarball you downloaded is broken.