compiling 2.2.6 with aqbanking 3 for windows

[Shawn Faucher]

Hi Andreas,

I started on dist.sh but haven't had time to get back to it.  I'll give it a
shot this weekend.

Aqdtaus doesn't appear to exist anymore for aqbanking 3.

-Shawn

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Andreas Köhler <andi5.py at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi Shawn,
>
> thanks a lot for your work!  It is looks good, I will probably give a
> try this weekend and hope to understand and find a solution for the
> qt3-wizard.  Have you considered patching dist.sh (and reset.sh) as
> well?
>
> BTW, was there a problem building aqdtaus?  I see from the patch that it
> is not in the specified list of to-be-built aqbanking backends anymore.
>
> Ciao,
> -- andi5
>
> On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 16:36 -0500, Shawn Faucher wrote:
> > I finally got GnuCash to compile with AQBanking 3 on windows.  My
> > problem with QT was due to the fact that somehow 'make qt4-port' was
> > skipping qbhelpbrowser.cpp.  When I did that manually it compiled ok.
> >
> > Unfortunately it does not work correctly.  So far I've noticed two
> > major issues.  One, the Online Banking Setup wizard button in GnuCash
> > fails to launch qt3-wizard.exe, even though it exists in gnucash/bin.
> > When I run qt3-wizard.exe manually it starts up fine and the backends
> > are listed but trying to add users or banks causes it to crash with
> > failed assertions (which have non-helpful names like "a" and "c"...).
> >
> > I'm attaching a diff for install.sh that allows installation with
> > either aqbanking 2 or 3.  I haven't gotten to dist.sh yet.
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Shawn Faucher <faucher at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >         Thanks Andreas. I started in on it as well and noticed the
> >         same thing about make check. I commented it out and got
> >         through to aqbanking but am having trouble with missing QT
> >         headers that don't exist anymore in QT4. I'm away on vacation
> >         through next week with no access to my dev box or I'd upload
> >         my install.sh patch so far.
> >
> >         -- Shawn
> >
> >
> >
> >         On Aug 8, 2008, at 3:30 AM, Andreas Köhler <andi5.py at gmx.net>
> >         wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >                 Hi,
> >
> >                 On So, 2008-08-03 at 17:45 -0400, Nathan Buchanan
> >                 wrote:
> >                         Hi Shawn,
> >                         On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Faucher
> >                         <faucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >                                 Hello all,
> >
> >                                 I maintain the GnuCash Portable
> >                                 package on portableapps.com.  I'm
> >                                 excited
> >                                 to
> >                                 see with this release that aqbanking 3
> >                                 is supported, since it no longer
> >                                 requires admin access to the registry
> >                                 (HKLM) and is thus much more
> >                                 portable.  Unfortunately I see that
> >                                 the windows release of 2.2.6 is still
> >                                 built with aqbanking 2.
> >
> >                                 Is anyone working on adding the option
> >                                 for aqbanking 3 to the windows build
> >                                 scripts?  I'm taking a crack at doing
> >                                 it manually but I'm sure someone more
> >                                 familiar with the scripts would
> >                                 probably do a better job.
> >
> >
> >                         I think Andreas might have some pieces of it,
> >                         but other than that, I don't
> >                         believe anyone is actively working on it. It
> >                         is on my ever-extending todo
> >                         list, though.
> >
> >                 yes, I have some pieces, but stopped because 'make
> >                 check' in gwenhywfar
> >                 simply failed with gnutls.  One might want to ignore
> >                 that for a while
> >                 and continue creating the other inst_ functions.
> >                  Shawn, if you want to
> >                 take a look at that, please consider working within
> >                 our scripting
> >                 framework.  That will reduce the work a lot needed to
> >                 incorporate your
> >                 results into the project.  I think the scripts are not
> >                 that complicated,
> >                 basically all we need are at least functions
> >                 inst_libgmp, inst_gnutls,
> >                 inst_gwenhywfar3 and inst_aqbanking3 that work
> >                 together seamlessly.
> >
> >                 Maybe the attachments help you a tiny bit.
> >
> >                 If you have problems, do not hesitate to ask :-)
> >
> >                 Personally, I am bit slow with emails right now
> >                 though.
> >
> >                 Ciao,
> >                 -- andi5
> >
> >
> >                 <libgmp.func>
> >                 <gnutls.func>
>
>