Successful test build on Windows with Changes

[Robert Fewell]

John,

I will give it a go...

Regards,
Bob

On Tue, 3 Sept 2024 at 16:50, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> Bob,
>
> Thanks for the recap. Can I entice you into putting your patches into a PR?
>
> The MSYS2 package archive lives at https://repo.msys2.org/mingw/mingw32/.
> It does have postgresql and xmlsec. It doesn’t have mariadbclient but does
> have mysqlclient but it’s not an active package. The other two are:
> https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-postgresql
> https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-xmlsec
>
> I guess we need to add a module for mariadbclient and that it’s time for
> another round of banging my head against the webkit-on-windows wall.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
> On Sep 3, 2024, at 06:33, Robert Fewell <14ubobit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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