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

[John Ralls]

On Dec 21, 2011, at 9:44 AM, 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 ?

I think it's probably easier at this point to try to stay with guile-1.6.7 for 2.4.

I found that the error message maps to https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29583,
which was against 1.8.6 when compiled with gcc-4.5. I first tried applying the patch (provided by that same Andy Wingo). While it applied fine, it didn't fix the problem. Now I'm trying to get gcc-4.4 to work, but I'm having a dinner party tonight and I don't know if I'll get it done until tomorrow.

Regards,
John Ralls