Development under Windows

Nathan Buchanan nbinont at gmail.com
Sun Apr 6 15:14:38 EDT 2008


Does /bin/aclocal* exist? (eg C:\soft\msys\bin\aclocal* ?)

If it does, do you have the permissions to move it?

Also, a few lines above the error might be useful to determine where in the
script the error happened.

Nathan

On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Youssef Ltaief <ltai0001 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> just did try and got the error message below
>
> "mv: cannot stat `/bin/aclocal*': No such file or directory"
>
> I installed msys under c:\soft\msys
> all downloaded files were saved uunder "c:\soft\downloads" including the
> wget package.
>
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks
> Youssef
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Youssef Ltaief <ltai0001 at yahoo.com>
> To: nbinont at yahoo.ca
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Sent: Saturday, April 5, 2008 11:02:34 AM
> Subject: Re: Development under Windows
>
> I will give it a try and let you know
> thanks Nathan
> Youssef
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Nathan Buchanan <nbinont at gmail.com>
> To: Youssef Ltaief <ltai0001 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Sent: Saturday, April 5, 2008 12:09:59 AM
> Subject: Re: Development under Windows
>
> Hi Youssef!
>
> That link shows you the fastest way to get up and running. The script
> mentioned there brings down and installs the gcc compiler, a build
> environment, all the gnucash dependencies, the latest source code from the
> repository, and then does a build of gnucash. You could, of course, set up
> all this manually - but it's far harder.
>
> The version compiled will not be installed in your programs directory,
> rather it will be compiled into c:\soft\gnucash (by default). to make an
> installer, additional steps are needed.
>
> Once the first build is made, you can easily modify the source code and
> either run install.sh again or type make/any other commands that you might
> wish.
>
> Nathan
>
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Youssef Ltaief <ltai0001 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Is this the link where I can find the source code?
> >
> > http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows#GnuCash_on_Microsoft_Windows
> >
> > I looked at section "Instructions for an (almost) automated build"
> > Is that where I need to be looking. I dont want to install gnucash
> > itself as I already have the stable version installed. I would like to look
> > at the source code and try to help.
> >
> > Where do I find a compiler for windows?
> >
> > I appreciate the help
> >
> > Youssef
> >
> >
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