Successful test build on Windows with Changes

[Robert Fewell]

Hi,

I have just finished refreshing my build VM's so they are upto date and
decided I would try to do a fresh build install on my Windows build machine
by doing the following and logging any problems / fixes...

Note: I left HTML workshop and Inno Setup installed

Copied Working c:\gcdev64 as a backup

Uninstall existing Msys2

Created new empty c:\gcdev64 directory

Download "setup-mingw64.ps1"

Start Powershell terminal
Run setup-mingw64.ps1 by specifying full path.
Complete Msys2 install

Gets stuck on 'Updating trust database..." after signing key, I have had
this before and just Ctrl-C and rerun setup-mingw64.ps1

Setup completed but looking at the terminal I can see errors...

## Error retrieving
mingw-w64-i686-webkitgtk3-2.4.11-999.51-any.pkg.tar.zst.sig, Maximum file
size exceeded.

Download sig file from sourceforge and copied to
c:\gcdev64\msys2\var\cache\pacman\pkg

## Error retrieving mingw-w64-i686-libmariadbclient and
mingw-w64-i686-postgresql,

Rerun "setup-mingw64.ps1" which downloads more files.

There will still be an error for 'libmariadbclient and postgresql, will be
fixed in Msys2 mingw32 terminal

Closed Powershell.

Start Msys2 mingw32 terminal

Copied mingw-w64-i686-libmariadbclient-3.1.13-1-any.pkg.tar.zst and sig
file from backup folder
Copied mingw-w64-i686-postgresql-16.1-1-any.pkg.tar.zst and sig file from
backup folder

cd /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
pacman -U mingw-w64-i686-libmariadbclient-3.1.13-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
pacman -U mingw-w64-i686-postgresql-16.1-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
** Note, I do not think these files exist from Msys2 Packages, maybe from
an archive somewhere. **

As I know webkit requires specific dependency versions, I did the following
after copying the files from my backup directory...

pacman -U mingw-w64-i686-boost-1.84.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
pacman -U mingw-w64-i686-icu-74.2-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
pacman -U mingw-w64-i686-harfbuzz-8.3.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
** Note, I do not think these files exist from Msys2 Packages, maybe from
an archive somewhere. **

And then updated /etc/pacman.d/gnucash-ignores.pacman with this so they
will not be updated...
IgnorePkg = mingw-w64-i686-boost
IgnorePkg = mingw-w64-i686-icu
IgnorePkg = mingw-w64-i686-harfbuzz

>From a first run, I know we need this package, copied from my backup
folder...

pacman -U mingw-w64-i686-xmlsec-1.2.39-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
** Note, I do not think this file exists from Msys2 Packages, maybe from an
archive somewhere. **

And these two for the install process...

pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-libsecret
pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-iso-codes

cd /c/gcdev64/src/gnucash-on-windows.git/
TARGET=gnucash-stable jhbuild -f jhbuildrc build

## jhbuild Failed, no module named 'distutils', I think this is due to
python upgrade

to fix do this...
pacman -S python-setuptools

Rerun, build started, 1 of 12...

## jhbuild Failed on last part of OpenSP build,

I think the jhbuild patch needs to be changed for utils/packagedb.py to...

+        if (self.manifest):
+            writer.fp.write('\n'.join(self.manifest).encode('utf-8',
'backslashreplace') + b'\n')


## gwenhywfar failed so I used 'Hai Liang Wang' fix in
tools/gcttool/main.c, line 182

  GWEN_Gui_SetKeyDataFromTextOpenSslFn(gui,
(GWEN_GUI_KEYDATAFROMTEXT_OPENSSL_FN)getKeyDataFromTextOpenSSL);

## bdwgc failed so I changed mark.c, line 514

  er.ex_reg.handler = (PEXCEPTION_ROUTINE)mark_ex_handler;

Rerun build phase...

## guile2 failed, missing function getpagesize

Added this to unistd.h, not sure if correct or correct location but it
allowed guile to build...

#ifdef _WIN32
#define getpagesize() 65536
#endif

Rerun build phase...

### Build Completes ###

Open PowerShell
cd c:\gcdev64\src\gnucash-on-windows.git\
.\bundle-mingw64.ps1 -root_dir c:\gcdev64 -target_dir
c:\gcdev64\gnucash\stable -package gnucash -git_build $true

Setup file created in c:\gcdev64\gnucash\stable, execute it and git version
of Gnucash is Installed.

Regards,
Bob
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