Windows XP build/rebuild question

[Charles Day]

On Jan 30, 2008 9:25 AM, Andreas Köhler <andi5.py at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi Charles,
>
> On Mi, 2008-01-30 at 01:45 -0800, Charles Day wrote:
> > I have a question about building GnuCash on Windows XP.  I've built
> GnuCash
> > plenty of times with install.sh and it works reliably. But if I go and
> > change, say, one line of druid-qif-import.c, what is the quickest way to
> > recompile/rebuild GnuCash?
> >
> > I thought that I could just go to the build directory and do a make,
> > followed by make install, but if I do that then GnuCash hangs during
> > startup, hogs the CPU and has to be killed.
> >
> > If I run install.sh again then it does an "svn up" (which I don't want)
> and
> > also runs configure again (which I don't want), and takes a very, very
> long
> > time to get through the whole process, but GnuCash does indeed work in
> the
> > end!
> >
> > Any advice would be appreciated.
>
> I suppose this happens because of dependency_libs lines in libtool
> archives (*.la).  I used to run the attached script after `make
> install`, maybe it helps you as well.
>
> -- andi5
>
>
Thanks Andreas, that fixes it!  I see that this is basically the same
Windows-specific steps that happen in install.sh "make install", with a few
small adjustments. I couldn't explain some differences though, and I wonder
if the script you gave me has gotten out of sync with what's in
install.sh(the line about "start gnucash-bin" for example).

So it seems that "make" and "make install" is not enough for Windows
developers, as we need to run this script afterwards.  Any chance of
including cleaninst.sh in SVN with the other packaging scripts? Perhaps it
could be integrated with install.sh in a way that keeps the shared code in
sync?

-Charles