Building on Windows from scratch

[Geert Janssens]

On Tuesday 24 December 2013 09:52:16 Gary Bilkus wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
Yes, I started from my own remote spec, which is for read-write access. I made a typo altering it 
to a read-only access url.

> 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-code
> s-3.49.tar.xz"
> 
I have pushed this fix to my repository.

Note that the mingw-rebasing branch -well- rebases frequently. So to pull in the latest changes 
you should use
git pull --rebase
instead of a plain git pull

>   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)
>              ;;
> 
Added this patch as well. Thanks !
> 
> 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.
You could avoid this by adding
HH_DIR="path to installation directory of html-help"
to custom.sh

> 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.

Odd I could build. But then again I did so many rebuilds, perhaps I worked with a different patch 
than what I eventually committed.

Thanks for looking at this !

Geert