RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Thu May 1 13:21:55 EDT 2014


On Thursday 01 May 2014 15:55:07 Geert Janssens wrote:
> Thank you for my feedback. It's nice to hear my effort is appreciated.
> 
Sometimes I appear to write utter nonsense... Rereading the above I of course wanted to 
say
Thank you for *your* feedback.

Oh well... Too many distractions...

Geert

> Your suggestion to move the installation of html help to the top is
> very useful. I'll check if this is possible and if so will make the
> necessary changes.
> 
> Geert
> 
> On Tuesday 29 April 2014 20:08:59 Wm Tarr wrote:
> > On 28/04/2014 10:09, Geert Janssens wrote:
> > > Lastly, how to use my repository ?
> > > - Download the bootstrap_win_dev.vbs script. It has some
> > > documentation at the beginning. Running it is mostly a
> > > double-click. This will prepare a c:\gcdev directory with the
> > > minimal tools required to run install.sh - Start msys
> > > (c:\gcdev\mingw\msys\1.0\msys.bat)
> > > - cd /c/gcdev/gnucash-on-windows.git
> > > - install.sh
> > > 
> > > Please test and provide feedback.
> > 
> > Wooooohoooo!
> > 
> > I think I may be the first reporting like this, if I am not then I
> > happily join others who have reported success.
> > 
> > It works!  I am now proudly running
> > ===
> > GnuCash 2.6.99
> > The GnuCash personal finance manager. The GNU way to manage your
> > money! This copy was built from git rev acad5a0+ on 2014-04-29
> > ===
> > 
> > First my congratulations and thanks to Geert and anyone else that
> > has
> > worked on this.  I think you deserve a beer / coffee / beverage of
> > choice for the amazing effort you must have put in.
> > 
> > I thank you, personally, and expect others will too once the
> > significance of this becomes clear [1]
> > 
> > I do not exaggerate when I say that this experience is an order of
> > magnitude different to the last time I attempted to build GnuCash
> > under Win.
> > 
> > Note: only one real glitch (attempt to build svn) was encountered
> > and
> > has already been fixed (thanks for prompt attention, Geert).
> > 
> > Note regarding human interaction: a human needs to get involved in
> > specifying gncdev/hh for the HTML Help, but because the build takes
> > some time and the HH happens part way through I was busy doing
> > something else when the licence, directory choice dialogue, etc.
> > came
> > up and dismissed them thinking they were to do with something else.
> > My suggestion is that if there are no other dependencies the
> > ===
> > add_step inst_hh
> > ===
> > is done right at the beginning / as soon as possible in install.sh
> > while the human is still paying attention.  Everything after that
> > will run by itself unless there is an error (in my experience).
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Some timings for those interested.
> > 
> > 12:48 downloaded bootstrap_win_dev.vbs and started it off
> > 
> >             (it wouldn't run by itself here so I started it in a
> > 
> > console with cscript.exe <path-to-this-script> as mentioned in the
> > script itself which worked fine)
> > 18:58 I had a working GnuCash 2.6.99
> > 
> > that is 6 hours and 10 minutes and would have been less if I hadn't
> > come across the svn problem (now fixed as mentioned above) and gone
> > through the inst_hh section 3 times because I'm a dumb human and
> > wasn't reading the instructions properly -- though my excuse is that
> > inst_hh should be near the top because I'd have been paying
> > attention
> > then!  That is my excuse and I am sticking to it :)


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