Windows build procedure

[Robert Fewell]

Will have a look...
Bob

On 17 October 2017 at 17:28, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> Bob,
>
> Thanks, I used this as a checklist.
>
> I've sorted out all of the problems but there's a new one to work on:
> Clicking the Start AQBanking Wizard crashes. It doesn't look from the
> backtrace like it's even getting that far... and it works fine on Mac and
> Linux.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
> > On Oct 13, 2017, at 5:16 AM, Robert Fewell <14ubobit at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > OK,
> > I copied the gschema files from msys2\mingw32\share\glib-2.0\schemas to
> a temp directory along with unstable\inst\share\glib-2.0\schemas files
> and then ran glib-compile-schemas on this directory to create a new
> gschemas.compiled file and then copied all the files in the directory to
> 'c:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\share\glib-2.0\schemas' which has solved
> the Glib error and the file chooser now works.
> >
> > The icon error can be fixed by copying the unstable\inst\share\icons\hicolor
> folder to either 'c:\Program Files (86)\gnucash\share\gnucash\icons\hicolor'
> or c:\Program Files (86)\gnucash\share\icons\hicolor', probably the later
> is the correct location.
> >
> > I can not see what else is wrong with the aqbanking dll.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Bob
> >
> > On 12 October 2017 at 17:48, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Robert Fewell <14ubobit at gmail.com> schreef op 12 oktober 2017 17:24:30
> GMT+01:00:
> > >John,
> > >Now built unstable and created exe and installed, side note
> > >bundle-mingw64.ps1 needs changing on line 134 to use 'GNC_VCS_REV'
> > >
> > >Still have the same problems, used dll walker on
> > >libgncmod-aqbanking.dll
> > >and it was missing libgwengui-gtk3.dll, copied that from the
> > >unstable/build/bin directory to c:\....gnucash\bin and that satisfied
> > >the
> > >dll walker. Started gnucash but still got the same error, maybe I
> > >should of
> > >walked on the libgwengui-gtk3.dll
> > >
> > >The preference error is to do with the gtk_file_chooser which may
> > >relate to
> > >the last error below, you also get the same thing by trying file/open
> >
> > (Snip)
> >
> > >* 16:00:14 OTHER <GLib-GIO> Settings schema
> > >'org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser'
> > >is not installed
> > >
> >
> > A missing gsettings schema will indeed crash the application, or more
> precisely it will abort it. Same effect to the user... This is a deliberate
> design decision of the GSettings folks. Their reasoning being that an
> application is supposed to know its schema so a missing one is considered a
> fatal error.
> >
> > Geert
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >Bob
> > >
> > >
> > >On 12 October 2017 at 01:37, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> > On Oct 11, 2017, at 9:00 AM, Robert Fewell <14ubobit at gmail.com>
> > >wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > Thanks John, that is what I was after but did not realise I had
> > >built
> > >> master so made the appropriate changes, exe created and used for an
> > >install.
> > >> >
> > >> > Noticed some dialogues pop up behind the main application and the
> > >> preferences dialogue crashes the app. Also I am getting this in the
> > >trace
> > >> file...
> > >> > * 15:01:28  WARN <gnc.module> Failed to dlopen() 'C:\Program Files
> > >> (x86)\gnucash\bin\libgncmod-aqbanking.dll': 'C:\Program Files
> > >> (x86)\gnucash\bin\libgncmod-aqbanking.dll': The specified module
> > >could
> > >> not be found.
> > >> >
> > >> > The file is there so not sure what is wrong with that, Will
> > >probably try
> > >> and build 'unstable' with debugging to see why the preferences crash
> > >> tomorrow.
> > >>
> > >> Bob,
> > >>
> > >> Dlopen says “image not found” when it can’t find the shared module
> > >it’s
> > >> trying to load and “module not found” when it can’t find one of the
> > >shared
> > >> module’s dependencies.
> > >>
> > >> The least painful way to figure out missing dependencies on Windows
> > >is a
> > >> program called Dependency Walker, a free download from Microsoft.
> > >>
> > >> Regards,
> > >> John Ralls
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> >
> > Sent from my smartphone. Please excuse my brevity.
> >
>
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