GnuCash trunk r20559 mingw build failed

[Geert Janssens]

On dinsdag 12 april 2011, Nitish Kumar wrote:
> > What version of Windows are you using, and is it 32 bit or 64 bit ?
> 
> Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit
> 
> This seems to be mingw specific issue. I have gcc-mingw 4.5.2.1. And as you
> guess, this doesn't seem to support %llu format specifier. I replaced it
> with %I64u and it works. But still could not complete the build as there is
> the same issue of %ll in other files like /backend/xml/sistp-utils.c line
> 226.
> 
> I see the wiki tells mingw specific instructions, but the nightly build has
> been running fine since Phil has added code. But the wiki also tells the
> instructions are old, so things might have changed for night builds, so I
> am eager to know which compiler is used for nightly builds, gcc-mingw or
> msvcrt or something else?
> 
The nightly build uses mingw-gcc. Unless you have specified another version in 
your custom.sh, you will use the same gcc as the nightly build.

> PS: If the nightly build does use MinGW, I would like to know the version
> of gcc port it is using and any flags being used with gcc.
> 
The build server uses packages versions as found in defaults.sh in the 
packaging directory you downloaded. It doesn't override anything.

At present this version is mingw gcc 4.5.2-1.

> PPS: http://mingw.org/wiki/C99 tells mingw does not support C99 standards
> and further in faq http://www.mingw.org/wiki/FAQ (search for %ll)
> "You should use %I64 instead of %ll when using msvcrt."
> But pathcing that on the whole of GnuCash would not be feasible, since that
> would violate C99.
> 
> At this point, I would like to know a bit of specifics about nightly build
> system.

I don't know why your system runs into this error while the build server 
doesn't. Do you have cygwin installed ? Perhaps that is interfering ?

Geert