Windows Build failure

[John Ralls]

> On Jul 27, 2015, at 12:59 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>> On Jul 27, 2015, at 10:21 AM, Robert Fewell <14ubobit at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> John,
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>> I have given it a try and it partially fixes the problem. Gnucash now builds OK but it still failed on startup. Just to make sure I created a setup.exe from the dist script and installed that which failed initially because it could not find the lib_boost_date.dll, these were in the lib directory but when I moved them to the bin directory Gnucash found the files and failed the same as from the build directory.
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>> Just to make sure it was not my XP build VM, I used the setup.exe on another XP VM and when I had moved the boost dll files, it started up just fine.
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>> Comparing the two, the one that worked had Time Zone 'GMT London' with DST ticked and the one that fails has 'GMT Monrovia/Reykjavik', swapping between the two allows it to run or fail.
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> Darn. I knew about putting the libs in the wrong place but forgot to commit the fix. Done now.
> 
> Ah, Liberia and Iceland are places that have the good sense not to use daylight time so the registry entry has 0 values for the transition times, and I’m not handling that correctly on Win32. Should be a straightforward fix.


Robert,

I just tested today’s nightly build in XP with the TZ set for Monrovia/Reykjavic and it started up without errors.

Regards,
John Ralls