[GNC-dev] Fresh Windows build setup fails

[Sumit Bhardwaj]

I was trying around the same time as Robert on a fresh Windows machine and it failed as well. With the same message.

-Sumit

-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-devel <gnucash-devel-bounces+bhardwajs=outlook.com at gnucash.org> On Behalf Of Robert Fewell
Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2020 02:02
To: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
Cc: gnucash-devel <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC-dev] Fresh Windows build setup fails

John,

Every thing above from 'My last attempt...' was done from the MINGW64 terminal prompt.

Regards,
Bob

On Thu, 24 Dec 2020 at 01:31, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
>
> > On Dec 23, 2020, at 6:50 AM, Robert Fewell <14ubobit at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > My Windows 10 hard drive failed which I thought would not be a big 
> > deal
> as
> > I only use it to build and test the windows build. After installing
> Windows
> > 10 and updating I grabbed the setup-mingw64.ps1 file and proceeded 
> > to recreate my build system.
> >
> > Unfortunately that did not work, tried the 32bit and 64bit versions 
> > which both failed. The first problem was that pkg-config --list-all 
> > would list all the packages with a starting forward slash with 
> > problems also in jhbuild.
> >
> > So tried another tact, I had an old backup from March which I 
> > restored
> and
> > then proceeded to update but that resulted in pacman listing loads 
> > of missing packages in the 'virtual world'
> >
> > My last attempt was to do the script manually, all OK till line 241 
> > where it installed mingw64/cmake and pkg-config. Once these were 
> > installed pkg-config --list-all would list with forward slash's. To 
> > overcome this I uninstalled them and installed msys versions and 
> > proceeded to the end of script.
> >
> > I have not checked the whether the boost version is correct for the
> webkit
> > version as to start with I just wanted a valid dependency.
> >
> > Changed to the gnucash-on-windows.git directory to start the build 
> > but
> that
> > failed as follows...
> >
> > Failed to 'import jhbuild' on line 15
> >   to fix I changed line 12 to sys.path.insert(0,
> > 'c:/gcdev64/src/jhbuild.git')
> >
> > Next was subprocess_win32 has no check_output  so added a line 
> > check_output = real_subprocess.check_output to subprocess_win32.py
> >
> > Which resulted in a string has no split method in systeminstall.py  
> > so changed shell_split = string.split to shell_split = str.split
> >
> > I am not sure these changes are correct as I know nothing about 
> > python
> but
> > I can now run...
> >
> > $ TARGET=gnucash-maint jhbuild -f jhbuildrc build Required packages:
> >  System installed packages which are too old:
> >    (none)
> >  No matching system package installed:
> >    make
> >    gcrypt
> >    pkg-config
> >    gmp
> >    git
> >    boost
> >    cmake
> >    ninja
> >
> > The strange thing is that all these are installed as...
> > cmake --version gives 3.18.4, ninja --version gives 1.10.2
> >
> > So the question is, has anybody recently done a fresh build setup 
> > install and it worked or know how to fix.
>
> Bob,
>
> Are you trying to run MSYS2 commands from a CMD or Powershell window 
> instead of from an MinGW32/64 one?
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
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