[GNC-dev] Windows Build VM

[Manfred Usselmann]

Hi John,

Am 2023-11-06 19:31, schrieb john:
>> On Nov 6, 2023, at 05:11, Manfred Usselmann <manfred at usselmann.de> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Am 2023-10-01 17:47, schrieb john:
>>>> On Oct 1, 2023, at 06:00, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>>>> 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.
>> 
>> The nightly builds are those on 
>> https://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/stable/, right?
>> 
>> Would it be possible to additonally provide a version there which 
>> includes the Python bindings?
> 
> No, there's no way to make that work with an installed package.
> 
>> 
>> Since there already exists a working build environment, I would hope 
>> that it's not too much work?
> 
> That depends on what you want to use for your Python. If you can use 
> the MSYS2 environment from Powershell (some MSYS2 things work directly 
> in Powershell, others need a Bash shell) then you can simply add 
> -DWITH_PYTHON=ON to the CMakeArgs in jhbuild and build it. Don't run 
> the installer, just add 
> c:\gcdev64\gnucash\stable\inst\lib\python3.11\site-packages to 
> PYTHONPATH and run your scripts.
> 
> If the MSYS2 python doesn't work for you then you'll need to fiddle 
> with paths and such so that CMake finds the python libraries that you 
> want it to. You must make sure that everything Python is linked to the 
> same Python installation.

Thanks, this sounds promising.

Results so far:

- I had to set-executionpolicy Unrestricted.

- I had to add libgcrypt to setup-mngw54.ps1

- How do I add -DWITH_PYTHON=ON to jhbuildrc?
   append_autogenargs("gnucash", "-DWITH_PYTHON=ON")  ?

- configure OpenSP fails:

checking build system type... Invalid configuration 
`x86_64-w64-mingw64': system `mingw64' not recognized
configure: error: /bin/sh 
/C/users/mu/Entwicklung/GnuCash/gcdev64/gnucash/stable/src/OpenSP-1.5.2/config.sub 
x86_64-w64-mingw64 failed
*** Error during phase configure of OpenSP: ########## Error running 
/bin/bash -c "pushd 
/C/users/mu/Entwicklung/GnuCash/gcdev64/gnucash/stable/src/OpenSP-1.5.2 
&& ./autoinit.sh && popd && 
/C/users/mu/Entwicklung/GnuCash/gcdev64/gnucash/stable/src/OpenSP-1.5.2/configure 
--prefix /C/users/mu/Entwicklung/GnuCash/gcdev64/gnucash/stable/inst  
--disable-Werror --disable-static --enable-shared --disable-doc-build 
--disable-nls --build=x86_64-w64-mingw64" *** [1/14]

Regards,
Manfred