Building on Windows from scratch

[Colin Law]

On 20 December 2013 12:59, Gary Bilkus <mail at gary.bilkus.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the info.
>
> I will set up a windows 32 bit virtual machine and try to follow the instructions one by one. Should I report each problem to this list or privately to somewhere else. I'm happy to put in the work to ensure that the instructions are clear.
>
> BTW, the reason I want to be able to build gnucash from source is that I'm considering some enhancements which may be of interest to others and may not, but I am restricted to running on windows boxes at the moment.

Have you considered running ubuntu (for example) in a virtual machine
such as vmware or virtualbox?   I suspect the hassle of doing that
would be much less than that of developing on Windows.

Colin