Windows XP, gnucash build problems

[Geert Janssens]

Hi Christian,

On Wednesday 10 March 2010, Christian Stimming wrote:
> The subdirectory sx/ of the OpenSP package is for sure irrelevant for
> use. The only relevant part is the library (DLL) in the first
> subdirectory lib/. Hence, the build errors in sx/ and subsequent
> directories can be ignored.
> 
> However, the more severe error is that the build in lib/ only builds a
> static library and not a dynamic DLL. This is wrong - we need the DLL,
> which is the reason why install.sh subsequently fails with the "Not
> installed correctly" message.
> 
> The relevant error for this problem is at the end of buildling lib/:
> >  Warning: Trying to link with static lib archive ../intl/libintl.a.
> 
> and additionally the next warning about the "-lpthread" library. I
> think both shouldn't have appeared on the command line here. Did those
> get pulled in from some environment variable? You need to find out
> where this -lpthread comes from, and disable that. I guess the
> libintl.a static library comes from the similar env variable, and it
> must be changed to pull in -lintl from the gnome/lib directory so that
> it eventually links to gnome/bin/intl.dll.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Christian
> 
I still haven't figured out how to get a working GnuCash build environment on 
Windows. I don't see what causes the OpenSP build to fail. I don't set any 
options in the environment that I know of.

Could you provide me with the contents of your custom.sh script ? I'd like to 
verify if any difference in the basic configuration may be the cause.

Geert