[GNC-dev] Windows Build VM

[Manfred Usselmann]

Hi flywire,

Am 2023-10-01 17:47, schrieb john:
>> On Oct 1, 2023, at 06:00, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Sun, October 1, 2023 12:00 am, flywire wrote:
>>> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-April/106619.html
>>> John wrote:
>>> 
>>>> we don't have a Windows CI action, the nightly builds are done with 
>>>> the
>>>> https://github.com/gnucash/GnuCash-on-windows powershell scripts on 
>>>> a
>>>> Windows VM in Derek's basement.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Derek, Can you make that VM available so I can run it? I'd really 
>>> like to
>>> run Python bindings under Windows.
>> 
>> I'm not sure what you mean by "make that VM available".  It's just a 
>> Win10
>> VM with the GnuCash build tools installed.  This particular VM has 
>> access
>> keys on it that make it difficult to just send you the disk image, if
>> that's what you're asking.
> 
> You can set up the necessary environment yourself, see 
> https://github.com/gnucash/gnucash-on-windows/. I'm not sure that the 
> part of setup-mingw64.ps1 that fills in the installer data still works, 
> but you can do that part yourself and then run setup-mingw64.ps1 to do 
> the updating and install the dependencies. Beware, though, that the 
> MSYS2 installer now installs the UCRT64 environment (see 
> https://www.msys2.org/docs/environments/). I tested that last week and 
> jhbuild doesn't like it one bit, so you' may need to also set up the 
> MINGW64 (or MINGW32 if you have the 32-bit version of Windows) 
> environment if setup-mingw64.psi fails.
> 

Did you by any chance try this? I would also be interested to run the 
Python bindings under windows.

Regards,
Manfred