r21768 - gnucash/branches/2.4/packaging/win32 - More changes to compile gtk-2.24.

[Geert Janssens]

On 21-12-11 18:44, Geert Janssens wrote:
> On 21-12-11 15:43, John Ralls wrote:
>> I got an msys-1.0.11 installation working on my windows VM yesterday 
>> and got it to go as far as starting Gnucash (I have a link error that 
>> I think is left over from the weekend and a completely different 
>> setup using the latest mingw -- which didn't go away when I cleaned 
>> gnome, gwen and aqb, so I think I need to start over with a clean 
>> tree). Unfortunately the 2.4 build bombed on gwen with an error that 
>> I don't immediately understand.
>>
>> I'm not likely to have time to dig into that today, so if you can fix 
>> the gwen error, great. Otherwise, I think you should revert your 
>> change to custom.sh yesterday (so that it goes back to aqb4) and 
>> we'll see what happens on tonight's build.
>>
>> If we have to bump guile to 1.8, that should still be OK. 2.4 does 
>> work with 1.8, that's what ships on OSX.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
> The gwenhywfar bomb was actually a mingw build failure. However, when 
> install.sh fails, dist.sh is started immediately without any check if 
> install.sh finished successfully. (The windows build system really is 
> that ugly).
>
> Since gwen isn't built yet, dist.sh fails in copying its files.
>
> I think mingw fails because the old directory was still around. To fix 
> this, I have chosen to run reset.sh first in order to get a clean 
> build environment and have manually started a 2.4 build. We'll see 
> what the result will be now.
>
> Regarding the guile update: if it were only the guile package that had 
> to be replaced it would be no problem. However, I never managed to 
> build the slib library for guile 1.8 on windows. So in trunk I have 
> applied a series of patches (once provided by Andy Wingo) to eliminate 
> slib. So updating guile on the 2.4 branch means we also have to apply 
> this set of patches to GnuCash 2.4. Is that ok for the stable branch ?
>
> Geert
Hmm, as I expected, the 2.4 build failed on guile. I don't have time 
tonight anymore and I would like to hear other's opinions on my earlier 
question before I want to go forward with this anyway.

Is it ok/worth it to apply all the guile 1.8 patches in GnuCash 2.4 (not 
only in the windows build system) in order to get the 2.4 build on 
windows working with aqbanking 5 ?
For reference most of these patches were applied to the trunk branch 
right after 2.4 was branched.

Geert