GnuCash Windows Build Help

[Robert Fewell]

Kevin,

You may find my earlier post of use in building on windows, hopefully I
will get round to creating a PR to update procedure, see link below...
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2024-September/046961.html

Regards,
Bob


On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 at 19:00, Kevin Sanders <kbsanders at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks John, I have joined the mailing list as suggested.
>
> I installed the recommended distutils extra package and it completed
> successfully but the error remains.
>
> Do you know what controls the version of python MinGW32 is using? Latest
> stable or something like that?
> The word "python" appears only once in the PowerShell setup script and is
> sans version.
>
> Perhaps this could be a PATH or environment issue where installed modules
> cannot be resolved?
>
> Console Output:
>
> Kevin at Kevin-PC MINGW32 /c/gcdev64/src/gnucash-on-windows.git
> $ pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-python-distutils-extra
> resolving dependencies...
> looking for conflicting packages...
>
> Packages (1) mingw-w64-i686-python-distutils-extra-2.39-4
>
> Total Download Size:   0.04 MiB
> Total Installed Size:  0.11 MiB
>
> :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
> :: Retrieving packages...
>  mingw-w64-i686-python-dist...    36.5 KiB  39.1 KiB/s 00:01
> [###############################] 100%
> (1/1) checking keys in keyring
> [###############################] 100%
> (1/1) checking package integrity
> [###############################] 100%
> (1/1) loading package files
>  [###############################] 100%
> (1/1) checking for file conflicts
>  [###############################] 100%
> (1/1) checking available disk space
>  [###############################] 100%
> :: Processing package changes...
> (1/1) installing mingw-w64-i686-python-distutils-extra
> [###############################] 100%
>
> Kevin at Kevin-PC MINGW32 /c/gcdev64/src/gnucash-on-windows.git
> $ TARGET=gnucash-stable jhbuild -f jhbuildrc build
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/jhbuild", line 22, in <module>
>     import jhbuild.main
>   File "/c/gcdev64/src/jhbuild.git/jhbuild/main.py", line 26, in <module>
>     import jhbuild.config
>   File "/c/gcdev64/src/jhbuild.git/jhbuild/config.py", line 31, in <module>
>     from jhbuild.environment import setup_env, setup_env_defaults, addpath
>   File "/c/gcdev64/src/jhbuild.git/jhbuild/environment.py", line 24, in
> <module>
>     from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib
> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 7, 2024 12:24 PM
> *To:* Kevin Sanders <kbsanders at hotmail.com>
> *Cc:* GnuCash Development <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org>
> *Subject:* Re: GnuCash Windows Build Help
>
> Kevin,
>
> Welcome to GnuCash. Please don’t contact the developers directly; always
> use one of the mailing lists (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists).
> You can pick whether user or devel is appropriate for a particular
> conversation, the developers monitor both. For this conversation I’ve
> picked devel and cc’d it for your convenience. You’ll need to subscribe to
> it to reply.
>
> That sounds like a Mingw64 problem, as Python officially didn’t remove
> distutils until 3.12.  OTOH distutils has been deprecated for years and the
> jhbuild maintainers have been ignoring the problem. They still are:
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/jhbuild/-/issues/291. Anyway, it looks
> like Mingw64 has provided a workaround called
> ming-w64-python-distutils-extra (
> https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-python-distutils-extra).
> You can install it from a Mingw32 terminal window by saying
>
>   pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-python-distutils-extra
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
> On Nov 7, 2024, at 08:47, Kevin Sanders <kbsanders at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi John, my name is Kevin Sanders.
>
> I'm a new user of GnuCash and I'm trying to get setup to do some
> development work with GnuCash on Windows.
>
> I'm sorry to bother you but I've run into an issue that I'm not sure how
> to resolve.
>
> I have ran the setup-mingw.ps1 PowerShell script.
> I have launched a MSYS2 MingGW 32-bit terminal window and cd into the
> repository directory.
> I run jhbuild and it fails with ModuleNotFoundError: No module named
> 'distutils'.
>
> I believe this to be a python issue, but I'm not really sure.
> Python version is showing as 3.11.10.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> -Kevin
>
> Console Output:
>
> Kevin at Kevin-PC MINGW32 /c/gcdev64/src/gnucash-on-windows.git
> $ TARGET=gnucash-stable jhbuild -f jhbuildrc build
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/jhbuild", line 22, in <module>
>     import jhbuild.main
>   File "/c/gcdev64/src/jhbuild.git/jhbuild/main.py", line 26, in <module>
>     import jhbuild.config
>   File "/c/gcdev64/src/jhbuild.git/jhbuild/config.py", line 31, in <module>
>     from jhbuild.environment import setup_env, setup_env_defaults, addpath
>   File "/c/gcdev64/src/jhbuild.git/jhbuild/environment.py", line 24, in
> <module>
>     from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib
> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'
>
> Kevin at Kevin-PC MINGW32 /c/gcdev64/src/gnucash-on-windows.git
> $ python --version
> Python 3.11.10
>
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