Windows MASTER version does not build.

[John Ralls]

> On Nov 7, 2016, at 6:29 AM, Robert Fewell <14ubobit at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Tried to build the latest windows version from master but it would not.
> The first error I got was that 'stoi' was not declared in this scope at
> line 1826,1827,1828 in gnc-backend-sql.cpp, changed that to use 'atoi' just
> to get going but it then failed at line 1271,1277 in gnc-backend-dbi.cpp
> on the PWARN lines. Commented those out just to get going again but it
> failed again at line 80 in gnc-dbiproviderimpl.hpp on 'to_string' is not a
> member of std.
> 
> At this point I checked out an earlier version to complete my test.
> 
> Looking at the 'stoi' and 'to_string' errors they seem to be fixed in a
> later version of ming, I think ming-w64, just wondering if the build
> environment needs to be newer with all these c++ changes or will that
> effect other things ?

I'll have a look at the stoi problem today.

MinGW should be using gcc-4.9.3. That's what's on Debian Jessie and master compiles fine there, so I don't think that it's a C++ support problem.

That said, MinGW64 seems to have a lot more mind-share recently than MinGW so perhaps we should look at it. I've no idea at this point whether it can be a "drop-in" replacement or would require substantial reworking of the build scripts.

Regards,
John Ralls