Windows XP build/rebuild question

[Charles Day]

On Jan 30, 2008 4:59 PM, Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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).
>

Sorry, a typo... the words "make install" should have been deleted in the
paragraph above.


> 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