v5.13 build failure on windows11 - localization issues

[John Ralls]

Russ,

I bumped into that a month ago when getting the release ready. I think it comes from a mismatch between mingw-w64-i686-gettext-tools and mingw-w64-i686-appstream-glib package versions. I have 0.26-2 and 0.8.3-2 respectively.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Oct 21, 2025, at 1:12 PM, <russ.gorby at gmail.com> <russ.gorby at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I’m not very familiar with localization and not sure where to start debugging this.
> Any pointers would be appreciated!
>  FAILED: [code=1] gnucash/gnome/gnucash.appdata.xml.in C:/gcdev64/gnucash/5.13/build/gnucash-git/gnucash/gnome/gnucash.appdata.xml.in
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /C "cd /D C:\gcdev64\gnucash\5.13\build\gnucash-git\gnucash\gnome && C:\gcdev64\msys2\usr\bin\msgfmt.exe --xml --template C:/gcdev64/gnucash/5.13/src/gnucash-git/gnucash/gnome/gnucash.appdata.xml.in.in -d C:/gcdev64/gnucash/5.13/src/gnucash-git/po -o C:/gcdev64/gnucash/5.13/build/gnucash-git/gnucash/gnome/gnucash.appdata.xml.in"
> /usr/bin/msgfmt: cannot locate ITS rules for C:/gcdev64/gnucash/5.13/src/gnucash-git/gnucash/gnome/gnucash.appdata.xml.in.in
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