[GNC-dev] Building on Windows

[Geert Janssens]

Thanks for the suggestion. However the goal is not only to get a linux GnuCash 
running on Windows. We already do better than that so it would be a step back 
to what we do now.
The goal is to make it easy to develop GnuCash *natively* on Windows ("as easy 
as on linux") to make it more attractive for native Windows developers to join 
the effort. Having a native Windows developer go through the hoops of MingW/
MSYS or even docker with linux is to high a barrier. Those are not the tools 
of choice for a Windows developer. Visual Studio is the environment of choice, 
or the lighter VS Code at a stretch. Want Windows developers to be interested 
? Make sure they can continue to use their tools.

Regards,

Geert

Op dinsdag 27 augustus 2019 12:58:47 CEST schreef Dale Phurrough via gnucash-
devel:
> If your goal is to use a Windows computer to run and/or develop GnuCash,
> then an option is to...
> Execute GnuCash in Linux
> Display GnuCash in Windows
> 
> I do not recommend deep investment into the current WSL. The drastically
> different WSL2 is already in preview and will be available within ~6-9
> months. At that point, there will be a full Linux kernel available. If it
> works in WSL1, it will probably work in WSL2...but you will likely have
> many workarounds/hacks that will be obsolete.
> Do Linux work in a Docker container. Host that container either on Windows
> or on any Linux machine you have that can run Docker.
> Use X Windows to remote the GnuCash display from the Docker container to
> your Windows machine. This is standard XWindows remoting.
> Now you have GnuCash GUI being displayed on a Windows machine, GnuCash
> executable running in the Docker container wherever it is, and the X
> Windows protocol connecting the two together.
> I do this often, across many Linux OS, all remoted to my same Windows 10
> computer.
> And yes, you can run the Docker container on same same Windows computer
> showing the GUI.
> 
> 1. Get a working Docker install. This is easy. Available for Windows and
> every Linux distribution https://docs.docker.com/install/
> 2. Get a working XWindows install for Windows. I use cygwin's XWin because
> setup was easy and it is free. https://x.cygwin.com/
> 3. Get a working GnuCash Docker container. This is easy
> https://github.com/diablodale/gnucash-dev-docker
> 
> --Dale
> 
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 7:15 AM Adrien Monteleone <
> 
> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> > > On Aug 26, 2019 w35d238, at 11:28 PM, Sumit Bhardwaj <
> > 
> > bhardwajs at outlook.com> wrote:
> > > WSL would provide a Linux binary, not a Windows binary. Is that what you
> > 
> > are thinking of building? I am also not sure how to get GUI running for
> > WSL. (WSL is really good tool.)
> > 
> > That’s what I was thinking too, but maybe John knows something we don’t.
> > If the goal of being able to build via VSCode is reached, then you can use
> > one machine and do both builds, one for Linux, the other for Windows. I’ve
> > not heard that the Linux version of VSCode can build a Windows binary.
> > (would be great if it could)
> > 
> > As for the GUI, some people have done it, though MS doesn’t support it.
> > (even running GnuCash!) But I haven’t tried it myself. I’m just getting
> > ready to play with Win10 for a client (I don’t use Win systems regularly
> > anymore) so I might give it a go in a month or so.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Adrien
> > 
> > 
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