[GNC-dev] Help with making changes on Windows maint

Fri Apr 20 09:53:03 EDT 2018

Bob,

Sorry, I misunderstood. Try rm -rf c:\gcdev64\gnucash\maint\inst\lib\gnucash\*.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Apr 20, 2018, at 6:31 AM, Robert Fewell <14ubobit at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> John,
> 
> I did that at the beginning of the week. As I said at the top of my first message, I had a successful build, made some changes to prove a bug fix, rebuilt and that was OK. It is only when I tried to make changes to gnc-main-window.c/h that I get the error message. If I change them back, it will work again. 
> Maybe I need to delete more files and not just the build/gnucash-git directory.
> 
> Bob 
> 
> On 20 April 2018 at 03:23, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Apr 19, 2018, at 9:16 AM, Robert Fewell <14ubobit at gmail.com <mailto:14ubobit at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> I have successfully built maint and needed to test some changes for some
>> bug fixes on Windows. So for the first couple of bugs I made the changes to
>> files in the following path...
>> c:\gcdev64\gnucash\maint\src\gnucash-git\gnucash\...
>> 
>> Went to my msys32 shell, used the usual jhbuild command which ran
>> successfully and was able to run gnucash from the maint directory via a cmd
>> file, some icons were missing but not relevant for my tests.
>> 
>> Now the problem...
>> Wanted to change file
>> c:\gcdev64\gnucash\maint\src\gnucash-git\gnucash\gnome-utils\gnc-main-window.c/h
>> 
>> There is a function in there gnc_main_window_popup_menu_cb which was
>> declared static but I wanted to expose it so I could call it from
>> gnc-plugin-page-register.c
>> Removed the static, added function to .h file and started the rebuild which
>> all looked fine until it failed with...
>> 
>> Backtrace:
>> In ice-9/eval.scm:
>> 432: 19 [eval # #]
>> In C:/gcdev64/gnucash/maint/inst/bin/guild:
>>  72: 18 [main ("C:/gcdev64/gnucash/maint/inst/bin/guild" "compile" "-o"
>> ...)]
>> In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
>> 616: 17 [for-each #<procedure 4a697c0 at scripts/compile.scm:187:14
>> (file)> #]
>> In scripts/compile.scm:
>> 190: 16 [#<procedure 4a697c0 at scripts/compile.scm:187:14 (file)>
>> "C:/gcdev64/gnucash/maint/src/gnucash-git/gnucash/import-export/qif-imp/qif-import.scm"]
>> In system/base/target.scm:
>>  59: 15 [with-target "i686-w64-mingw32" ...]
>> In system/base/compile.scm:
>> 152: 14 [compile-file
>> "C:/gcdev64/gnucash/maint/src/gnucash-git/gnucash/import-export/qif-imp/qif-import.scm"
>> ...]
>>  43: 13 [call-once #<procedure 4a69120 at system/base/compile.scm:56:5 ()>]
>> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>> 174: 12 [with-throw-handler #t ...]
>> In system/base/compile.scm:
>>  59: 11 [#<procedure 4a69100 at system/base/compile.scm:58:9 ()>]
>> 155: 10 [#<procedure 4a69140 at system/base/compile.scm:153:8 (port)>
>> #<closed: file 0>]
>> 218: 9 [read-and-compile #<input: qif-import.scm 5> #:from ...]
>> 234: 8 [lp (# # #) #<directory # 4d5df50> #<directory # 4d5df50>]
>> 182: 7 [lp (#<procedure compile-tree-il (x e opts)>) (eval-when # #) ...]
>> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>> 2412: 6 [save-module-excursion #<procedure cb3ba98 at
>> language/scheme/compile-tree-il.scm:29:3 ()>]
>> In language/scheme/compile-tree-il.scm:
>>  31: 5 [#<procedure cb3ba98 at language/scheme/compile-tree-il.scm:29:3
>> ()>]
>> In ice-9/psyntax.scm:
>> 1107: 4 [expand-top-sequence ((eval-when # #)) () ((top)) ...]
>> 990: 3 [scan ((eval-when # #)) () ((top)) ...]
>> 279: 2 [scan ((load-extension "libgnc-gnome" "scm_init_sw_gnome_module"))
>> () ...]
>> In unknown file:
>>   ?: 1 [load-extension "libgnc-gnome" "scm_init_sw_gnome_module"]
>> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>> 109: 0 [#<procedure 4a690e0 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:100:6 (thrown-k . args)>
>> misc-error ...]
>> 
>> ice-9/boot-9.scm:109:20: In procedure #<procedure 4a690e0 at
>> ice-9/boot-9.scm:100:6 (thrown-k . args)>:
>> ice-9/boot-9.scm:109:20: In procedure dynamic-link: file: "libgnc-gnome",
>> message: "The specified module could not be found."
>> make[2]: ***
>> [gnucash/import-export/qif-imp/CMakeFiles/scm-qif-import-2.dir/build.make:63:
>> lib/gnucash/scm/ccache/2.0/gnucash/import-export/qif-import.go] Error 1
>> make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:9685:
>> gnucash/import-export/qif-imp/CMakeFiles/scm-qif-import-2.dir/all] Error 2
>> make: *** [Makefile:163: all] Error 2
>> 
>> Next I deleted maint/build/gnucash-git but that made no difference.
>> Added a duplicate of that function with a different name but that made no
>> difference.
>> 
>> Why do my changes cause this scheme error?
>> Do I need to remove more files before the rebuild ?
> 
> 
> Bob,
> 
> This is probably due to https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/issues/3609 <https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/issues/3609>. The workaround for now is to set ignorepkg in paceman.conf, see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_on_Windows <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_on_Windows>
> 
> To recover you need to revert the upgrades of ICU, Boost, and harfbuzz. The previous versions will be in /var/cache/pacman/pkg; you want the next-to-latest of each. Open an msys shell (doesn’t matter which), do e.g.
>   ls /var/cache/pacman/pkg/*boost*
>   pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/<filename>
> for each one.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 