Building on Windows from scratch

[Gary Bilkus]

> I'm sorry I didn't mention this more clearly. The documentation is not 
> updated yet. So the information in the README file is still for the 
> old build process.
>
> This is how I think you should proceed (I'm assuming you stick with 
> the default path names):
>
> - clear every trace of the previous gnucash build environment from 
> your system, including mingw and msys.
>
> - download this file: 
> https://raw.github.com/gjanssens/gnucash/mingw-rebasing/packaging/win32/bootstrap_win_dev.vbs
>
> This comes from my git repository, but you don't need to have git 
> installed on your system just yet. The top of the file gives a bit 
> more information on what it will do (install minimal mingw, msys, git 
> and clone the gnucash repository).
>
> - *intermediate step* edit the file and change the repos url in line 
> 44 to:
>
> REPOS_URL = "git://github.com:gjanssens/gnucash.git"
>
> This is only necessary because my work is not in the default gnucash 
> repository yet.
>
> - save the file
>
> - double-click to execute the file. It will open a console window in 
> which you can follow its progress. Wait until it finishes.
>
> - at this point, you should have a new directory c:\soft with at least 
> directories mingw and gnucash.git. Perhaps also a git-1.7.10 directory 
> if git was not yet installed on your system (or maybe even in that case).
>
> - *intermediate steps* (no longer necessary when my work is integrated 
> in the main gnucash git repository)
>
> * open a git bash window on the newly downloaded repository
>
> you can do this via a windows explorer and then right-click
>
> on the directory of the repository
>
> * track and checkout my mingw branch
>
> git branch -t mingw origin/mingw-rebasing
>
> git checkout mingw
>
> - now open an msys console. The bootstrap script currently doesn't 
> create a softlink on the desktop yet, so you will have to navigate to
>
> c:\soft\mingw\msys\1.0\ and double-click msys.bat in there.
>
> - within that console, start the gnucash build:
>
> * cd /c/soft/gnucash.git/packaging/win32
>
> * ./install.sh
>
> With the current state of the branch this should work until the 
> gnucash build step. There I run into no-undefined warnings I haven't 
> had time to figure out yet.
>
> Can you try these steps and let me know how it goes ? By the way I'm 
> open to patches to either the build, the README file or other 
> improvements on this subject :)
>
> Geert
>

Thanks Geert.
I've tried as you suggested. There's one typo above I think
REPOS_URL = "git://github.com:gjanssens/gnucash.git"
didn't work for me, but git://github.com/gjanssens/gnucash.git
did.

The everything seems to go fine until I get:
############################################################
###  isocodes
############################################################
--2013-12-23 19:48:02-- 
http://pkg-isocodes.alioth.debian.org/downloads/iso-cod
es-3.34.tar.bz2
Resolving pkg-isocodes.alioth.debian.org... 5.153.231.21
Connecting to pkg-isocodes.alioth.debian.org|5.153.231.21|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2013-12-23 19:48:03 ERROR 404: Not Found.
I discovered that the versiou available on the website is now 3.49 and 
an .xz file. So I updated custom.sh

ISOCODES_URL="http://pkg-isocodes.alioth.debian.org/downloads/iso-codes-3.49.tar.xz"

  and edited functions.sh to include at line 92:
         *.tar.xz)
             tar -xJpf $LAST_FILE -C $_EXTRACT_UDIR
             _PACK_DIR=$(tar -Jtf $LAST_FILE 2>/dev/null | head -1)
             ;;


and carried on....
Next it refused to install html help because a newer version was already 
on the machine..... but that didn't sound too serious.
So it carried on until
extracting libdbi-0.8.4.tar.gz ... done
....
Hunk #2 FAILED at 154
1 out of 4 hunks FAILED....

Will look further later.
Gary






So I assume something's moved....