[GNC-dev] Windows Build VM

[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. 

Regards,
John Ralls