Windows Build

[Robert Fewell]

Geert,

I have successfully built a 2.7.5 version locally with these changes...

Added the following to gnome/CMakeLists.txt at line 178 but I think this
may need to go in the jhbuildrc.in file
GETTEXTDATADIR=/mingw32/share/gettext

Added the following to gnucash-mingw64.iss at line 120
Source: "@MINGW_DIR@\bin\libboost_date_time-mt.dll"; DestDir: "{app}\bin";
Components: main

Whilst poking around yesterday I also created copies of
gettext/its/appdata.its/loc as it appeared to me the loc file was doing
file matching but the match pattern was *.appdata.xml and not *.
appdata.xml.in
but this may not be required, need to delete these extra files and try
another rebuild.

Have you run the *setup-ming64-ps1 *file, I did last month and as reported
made some changes which effected the build, namely I think cmake was
updated to 10 which meant the FindSWIG patch would not apply so maybe there
were other changes that affected gettext ?


I will have another go later, need to prepare car for MOT tomorrow.

Regards,
Bob



On 4 March 2018 at 16:40, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:

> Op zondag 4 maart 2018 16:19:46 CET schreef Robert Fewell:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Just tried to build the latest unstable for Windows but it fails with
> this
> > ...
> >
> > [ 76%] Generating gnucash.appdata.xml
> > C:/gcdev64/msys2/mingw32/bin/msgfmt.exe: cannot locate ITS rules for
> > C:/gcdev64/gnucash/unstable/src/gnucash-git/gnucash/gnome/
> > gnucash.appdata.xml.in
> > make[2]: *** [gnucash/gnome/CMakeFiles/gnucash-appdata.dir/build.
> make:61:
> > gnucash/gnome/gnucash.appdata.xml] Error 1
> > make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:7919:
> > gnucash/gnome/CMakeFiles/gnucash-appdata.dir/all] Error 2
> > make: *** [Makefile:163: all] Error 2
> > *** Error during phase build of gnucash-git: ########## Error running
> make
> > -j 1  *** [15/17]
> >
> > Poked around but could not get it to work so thought I would see what the
> > build server logs yield but that has not worked since 25/02/2018 so no
> help
> > there.
> >
> This probably means msgfmt is not finding gettext's its rules. On linux
> they
> are in /usr/share/gettext/its and/or /usr/share/gettext-0.19.8/its.
>
> I had to search a bit on the windows build server. Apparently there they
> are
> stored under /mingw32/share/gettext/its which for some reason is not where
> msgfmt is expecting them. We can fix this by setting environment variable
> GETTEXTDATADIR to /mingw32/share/gettext somewhere that it's in the
> environment when gnucash is being built. I don't know offhand how to do
> that
> exactly in jhbuild.
>
>
> > So I downloaded that build but it fails with a missing
> > libboost_date_time-mt.dll so if the above is fixed it still might not
> work.
> >
> Interesting. The build server's build failure is a gettext issue as well.
> It
> fails to compare GETTEXT_VERSION_STRING to 0.19. Or more precisely it seems
> like GETTEXT_VERSION_STRING is not being set.
>
> Did you not get this error in your cmake run locally ?
>
> Geert
>
> > PS: Is it possible to clear out some of the old logs, maybe separate
> > sub-directories for each maint, master, unstable and docs.
>
> That should be something for Derek to look into...
>
> > Also the maint
> > build is complaining about certificates and gives up.
>
> Hmm, looks like our download script isn't happy with the new certificate
> being
> used at aquamaniac.  It appears the download function we use is not smart
> enough to read Alternative DNS names from the certificate... To be
> investigated...
>
> Unless you plan to dig into these yourself, can you file bug reports ?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>