[GNC-dev] Windows Build VM

[john]

> On Nov 11, 2023, at 17:47, Manfred Usselmann <manfred at usselmann.de> wrote:
> 
> Am 2023-11-11 18:46, schrieb john:
>>> On Nov 11, 2023, at 04:18, Manfred Usselmann <manfred at usselmann.de> wrote:
>>> # Next issue:
>>> # -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> *** Checking out gnucash-git *** [12/14]
>>> [...]
>>> CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:345 (message):
>>> Neither guile 3.0, guile 2.2, nor guile 2.0 were found GnuCash can't run
>>> without one of them.  Ensure that one is installed and can be found with
>>> pkg-config.
>>> -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
>>> *** Error during phase configure of gnucash-git: ########## Error running cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/C/users/mu/Entwicklung/GnuCash/gcdev64/gnucash/stable/inst -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib -G Ninja -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$MSYS2ROOT -DPERL_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/perl -DGNC_DBD_DIR=$PREFIX/lib/dbd -DGTEST_ROOT=$SRCROOT/googletest/ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug  /C/users/mu/Entwicklung/GnuCash/gcdev64/gnucash/stable/src/gnucash-git *** [12/14]
>>> # -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Not sure what this one is. I believe there was already a long running build of guile2.
>>> *** Checking out guile2 *** [10/14]
>>> *** Skipping guile2 (package and dependencies not updated) *** [10/14]
>>> Any hint for me?
>> You probably need at least mingw-w64-i686-webkitgtk3-2.4.11-999.5-any. WebKit is a long-running sore point. MSYS2 periodically updates one of the webkit dependencies and I have to build another one, a process that can take several days. Another wrinkle is that Derek's windows VM and my windows VM sometimes diverge. Getting them back is another manual process that I have to make time to do carefully so as not to break the nightly builds; keeping those working is the top priority for gnucash-on-windows.
> 
> Completely understandable.
> 
>> With a new installation you're likely out of sync with both of those reference MSYS2 installations. Having a mismatch will cause link errors with libgnc-html.dll.
> 
> We'll see...
> 
> 
>> For guile, make sure that $PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig/guile-2.2.pc exists; if it does make sure that PKG_CONFIG_PATH contains $PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig.
> 
> It does.
> 
> $ pkg-config --list-all
> aqbanking                      AqBanking - A library for online banking functions and financial data import/export
> atomic_ops                     The atomic_ops library - Atomic memory update operations portable implementation
> bdw-gc                         Boehm-Demers-Weiser Conservative Garbage Collector - A garbage collector for C and C++
> guile-2.2                      GNU Guile - GNU's Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension
> [...]0
> 
> But for cmake / pkg_check_modules only the packages from gcdev64/msys2/mingw32/lib/pkgconfig are visible.
> 
> Strange...

Dunno if it's strange. jhbuildrc should add $PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig/ to PKG_CONFIG_PATH. Maybe that's gotten messed up?

Regards,
John Ralls