[GNC-dev] Fresh Windows build setup fails

Robert Fewell 14ubobit at gmail.com
Fri Jan 29 06:39:06 EST 2021


John,
OK, will try and test a clean install maybe on Sunday. I did actually get
my build working but as usual other things took my time. I still had the
jhbuild package using python2.7, installed that and was able to do a
successful build with a couple of tweaks. I noticed the ICU update and
downgraded ICU, boost and halfbuzz I think to match the webkit version and
cmake and removed pkgconf.
I imagine that as I had been building on windows for a long time I was
always using the old version of jhbuild.

If I recall, I did notice something strange with the mariad database files,
with a new install I do not think there is a plugin directory but will
confirm that.

Regards,
Bob

On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 at 04:33, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> I finally got back to this this week. There's a simple patch, which I've
> pushed to gnucash-on-windows.git/patches/jhbuild.patch, to get jhbuild to
> lose the leading / from pkgconf's version of pkg-config --list-all. That
> fixes the major problem of nothing being able to find its dependencies with
> pkg-config, and with that fixed everything seems to work normally again.
>
> Except that MSYS2 did a major update recently and bumped the ICU version,
> and that breaks mingw-w64-webkitgtk. I've got a new one building, with luck
> it will be done tomorrow.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
> > On Dec 27, 2020, at 4:25 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> >
> > Bob,
> >
> > I poked at this for a few hours today. I found that the only thing that
> needs adjusting is to remove or comment out line 66 ($env:MSYSTEM =
> 'MINGW32') in buildserver/build_package.ps1.
> >
> > I also found an error in jhbuild, this patch fixes it:
> > diff --git a/jhbuild/utils/packagedb.py b/jhbuild/utils/packagedb.py
> > index b938c27c..b9d6d135 100644
> > --- a/jhbuild/utils/packagedb.py
> > +++ b/jhbuild/utils/packagedb.py
> > @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ class PackageEntry:
> >         # write manifest
> >         fileutils.mkdir_with_parents(os.path.join(self.dirname,
> 'manifests'))
> >         writer = fileutils.SafeWriter(os.path.join(self.dirname,
> 'manifests', self.package))
> > -        writer.fp.write('\n'.join(self.manifest).encode('utf-8',
> 'backslashreplace') + b'\n')
> > +        writer.fp.write('\n'.join(self._manifest).encode('utf-8',
> 'backslashreplace') + b'\n')
> >         writer.commit()
> >
> >     def remove(self):
> >
> > And things seem to be building OK now.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Dec 26, 2020, at 4:01 AM, Robert Fewell <14ubobit at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> John,
> >> Yes I did amend jhbuildrc.
> >>
> >> Had another poke at it, I ran the setup-mingw64.ps1 file again using
> all defaults to completion.
> >> pkg-config gives said out put.
> >> Down graded cmake to version 3.18.4-1
> >> Installed mingw pkg-config which uninstalled pkgconf.
> >>
> >> Changed to gnucash-on-windows.git and tried jhbuild command
> >> got error importing jhbuild - needed to change path.insert to be of
> form c:\\gcdev64\src\jhbuild.git'
> >>
> >> Changing that then gave the subprocess error
> >> I then made all the changes in mypatch file which seemed to work but I
> then got the following directory structure c\gcdev64\downloads and
> gnucash....
> >>
> >> So I changed  jhbuildrc to the following
> >> _basedir = "c:\gcdev64"
> >> _download_dir ="c:\gcdev64\downloads"
> >>
> >> And now OpenSP was downloaded and started to configure and build I
> think and then errored.
> >>
> >> That's as far I can go.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Bob
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, 26 Dec 2020 at 03:38, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Dec 24, 2020, at 7:51 AM, Robert Fewell <14ubobit at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> John,
> >>>
> >>> I think this is down to paths / filenames, I can fix all the missing
> dependencies by doing this...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>    c_include_search_paths = None
> >>>    for dep_type, value, altdeps in sysdeps:
> >>>        print("dep_type: ", dep_type)
> >>>        print("value is: ", value)
> >>>        dep_met = True
> >>>        if dep_type.lower() == 'path':
> >>>            if os.path.split(value)[0]:
> >>>                if not os.path.isfile(value) and not os.access(value,
> os.X_OK):
> >>>                    dep_met = False
> >>>            else:
> >>>                pathdirs = set(os.environ.get('PATH',
> '').split(os.pathsep))
> >>>                pathdirs.update(['/sbin', '/usr/sbin'])
> >>>                for path in pathdirs:
> >>>                    filename = os.path.join(path, value)
> >>>                    filename = filename.replace("/c/", "/")
> >>>                    print("path filename is: ", filename)
> >>>                    if os.path.isfile(filename) and os.access(filename,
> os.X_OK):
> >>>                        break
> >>>                    filename = filename + ".exe"
> >>>                    print("path filename is: ", filename)
> >>>                    if os.path.isfile(filename) and os.access(filename,
> os.X_OK):
> >>>                        break
> >>>                else:
> >>>                    dep_met = False
> >>>        elif dep_type.lower() == 'c_include':
> >>>            if c_include_search_paths is None:
> >>>                c_include_search_paths =
> get_c_include_search_paths(config)
> >>>            found = False
> >>>            for path in c_include_search_paths:
> >>>                filename = os.path.join(path, value)
> >>>                print("filename is: ", filename)
> >>>                filename = filename.replace("/c/", "/")
> >>>                print("filename is: ", filename)
> >>>                if os.path.isfile(filename):
> >>>                    found = True
> >>>                    break
> >>>            if not found:
> >>>                dep_met = False
> >>>
> >>> Not very portable but may give you an idea for correct fix.
> >>>
> >>> Now I get ....
> >>> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>>  File "C:/gcdev64/msys2/usr/bin/jhbuild", line 23, in <module>
> >>>    jhbuild.main.main(sys.argv[1:])
> >>>  File "c:\gcdev64\src\jhbuild.git/jhbuild/main.py", line 120, in main
> >>>    rc = jhbuild.commands.run(command, config, args, help=lambda:
> print_help(parser))
> >>>  File "c:\gcdev64\src\jhbuild.git/jhbuild/commands/__init__.py", line
> 188, in run
> >>>    return cmd.execute(config, args, help)
> >>>  File "c:\gcdev64\src\jhbuild.git/jhbuild/commands/__init__.py", line
> 56, in execute
> >>>    return self.run(config, options, args, help)
> >>>  File "c:\gcdev64\src\jhbuild.git/jhbuild/commands/base.py", line 262,
> in run
> >>>    build = jhbuild.frontends.get_buildscript(config, module_list,
> module_set=module_set)
> >>>  File "c:\gcdev64\src\jhbuild.git/jhbuild/frontends/__init__.py", line
> 27, in get_buildscript
> >>>    return BuildScript(config, module_list, module_set=module_set)
> >>>  File "c:\gcdev64\src\jhbuild.git/jhbuild/frontends/terminal.py", line
> 111, in __init__
> >>>    buildscript.BuildScript.__init__(self, config, module_list,
> module_set=module_set)
> >>>  File "c:\gcdev64\src\jhbuild.git/jhbuild/frontends/buildscript.py",
> line 78, in __init__
> >>>    subprocess.call(chrt_args + ['true'], stdout=devnull,
> stderr=devnull) == 0):
> >>> AttributeError: module 'jhbuild.utils.subprocess_win32' has no
> attribute 'call'
> >>
> >> Bob,
> >>
> >> Did you add that python fragment to jhbuildrc?
> >>
> >> I tested two things yesterday: Installing a fresh build environment and
> running pacman -Syuu on my current one. In the latter I found that the
> replacement of pkg-config with pkgconf was a dependency of cmake 3.19 so I
> set an ignore on cmake in pacman.conf before allowing the upgrade to
> proceed. I also pulled the latest jhbuild. That one works fine.
> >>
> >> I'm trying figure out what's making subprocess_win32 to break
> subprocess on the new install while it works OK on the old one. The python
> packages are the same and I've made sure that both jhbuild repos are at the
> current HEAD. I rolled back cmake to 3.18 and reinstalled pkg-config
> replacing pkgconf.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> John Ralls
> >>
> >>
> >> <0001-mychanges.patch>
> >
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