Building on Windows from scratch

[Geert Janssens]

On Wednesday 25 December 2013 18:46:32 Gary Bilkus wrote:
> On 24/12/2013 18:25, Gary Bilkus wrote:
> >> > 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
> > 
> > Another update.
> > - The problem with libdbi goes away if you change the patch command
> > on line 792 and again on line 828 to include  -l
> > patch -l -p1 <......
Interesting... I wonder why I didn't block me.

> > I assume there's some weird whitespace problem with either the patch
> > of the current version of the code
> > - There seems to be a version issue with GWENHYFAR_VERSION
> > It builds OK but every time I restart it rebuilds. For some reason
> > it's built a version which annouces itself as 4.7.0beta even though
> > the file it downloads says it's 4.8.0beta
> > If I build and change the version to 4.7.0beta it doesn't then try
> > and rebuild each time. But seems a bit strange.
> > 
That looks like a bug in Gwenhywfar then.

> > Finally, it tries to build gnucash itself.
> > 
> > The first sign of a problem is that it says:
> >       please add the files codeset.m4 gettext.m4 glibc21.m4 iconf.m4
> > 
> > isc-posix.m4 lcmessage.m4 progtest.m4 from the /aclocal directory to
> > your autoconf macro directory or directly to your aclocal.m4 file
> > 
> > And then
> > You shoudl add the contents of
> > /c/soft/gnome/share/aclocal/intltool.m4 to aclocal.m4
> > .....
> > Running autoconf
> > 
> > NOTE: Just run configure. Even if something told you to run aclocal,
> > autommake.....
> > 
> > You must now run ./configure --enable-compile-warnings ....
> > ./install-impl.sh: lin 1296: ../repos/configure: No such file or
> > directory.
> > 
> > Not sure if this is where you are at this point too....
> > Gary
Again it would be interesting to learn why I didn't run into those...
> 
> A bit further now.....
> If I change the REL_REPOS_DIR to $GLOBAL_DIR\\gnucash.git
This doesn't make sense to me. REL_REPOS_DIR is not used in the install script,  but only in 
the nightly build scripts.

Which script are you running exactly to build gnucash ?
It should be install.sh

> then it runs configure OK and bombs out on libxml2 tests
> This is because the compiler doesn't recognise -no-undefined, so I
> guess I got to where you were.
> If you remove -no-undefined from configure.ac and try again, configure
> completes and the make starts.
> It then fails in libqof/qof/guid.c line 243 unknown conversion type
> character l in format [-Werror=format=]
> and again in line 510 and 513....

That's indeed as far as I got before I ran out of time.

Geert