Building GnuCash on Windows

Richard Thomas richdthomas at gmail.com
Fri Mar 8 16:50:03 EST 2013


Hi,

I have been going through the steps in
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows#Instructions_for_an_.28almost.29_automated_buildand
I have been running into some issues.  I can't get through the last
issue that I am faced with.

To share what I have done to resolve the first bunch of issues, I have
needed to edit file install-impl.sh.

What I did with install-impl.sh is to update to the following lines, to
find the correct part of the script, search install-impl.sh for
$DOWNLOAD_UDIR/wget which takes you straight to where the lines that need
updating are:

        tar --lzma -xvf $DOWNLOAD_UDIR/wget*.tar.lzma -C $_WGET_UDIR
        cp $_WGET_UDIR/*/wget.exe $_WGET_UDIR/bin

Now for the issue that I cannot figure out how to get past.




Richard at DELL-7 ~
$  /c/soft/gnucash/repos/packaging/win32/install.sh | tee /c/soft/build.txt
Build Starting at Fri Mar  8 21:09:31 GMTST 2013

############################################################
###  Wget
############################################################
already installed in /c/soft/tools/bin.  skipping.

############################################################
###  MSYS DTK
############################################################
cygwin warning:
  MS-DOS style path detected: c:/soft/tmp/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe
  Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/c/soft/tmp/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe
  CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this
warning.
  Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
    http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames
--2013-03-08 21:09:38--
http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mingw/msysDTK-1.0.1.
exe
Resolving heanet.dl.sourceforge.net (heanet.dl.sourceforge.net)...
193.1.193.66, 2001:770:
18:aa40::c101:c142
Connecting to heanet.dl.sourceforge.net
(heanet.dl.sourceforge.net)|193.1.193.66|:80...
co
nnected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mingw/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe?download&fa
iledmirror=heanet.dl.sourceforge.net [following]
--2013-03-08 21:09:38--
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mingw/msysDTK-1.0.1.
exe?download&failedmirror=heanet.dl.sourceforge.net
Resolving downloads.sourceforge.net (downloads.sourceforge.net)...
216.34.181.59
Connecting to downloads.sourceforge.net
(downloads.sourceforge.net)|216.34.181.59|:80...
c
onnected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mingw/Other/Unsupported/MSYS/msysDTK/ms
ysDTK-1.0.1/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe?download=&failedmirror=
heanet.dl.sourceforge.net [following]

--2013-03-08 21:09:38--
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mingw/Other/Unsupported/
MSYS/msysDTK/msysDTK-1.0.1/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe?download=&failedmirror=heanet.dl.sourceforge.
net
Reusing existing connection to downloads.sourceforge.net:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location:
http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/project/mingw/Other/Unsupported/MSYS/msysDTK/msys
DTK-1.0.1/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe [following]
--2013-03-08 21:09:38--
http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/project/mingw/Other/Unsupported/MS
YS/msysDTK/msysDTK-1.0.1/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe
Resolving kent.dl.sourceforge.net (kent.dl.sourceforge.net)...
212.219.56.185
Connecting to kent.dl.sourceforge.net
(kent.dl.sourceforge.net)|212.219.56.185|:80...
conn
ected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 10299560 (9.8M) [application/x-msdos-program]
Saving to: `c:/soft/tmp/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe'

100%[======================================>] 10,299,560   701K/s   in 17s

2013-03-08 21:09:55 (600 KB/s) - `c:/soft/tmp/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe' saved
[10299560/10299560]


./install-impl.sh: line 104: /c/soft/downloads/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe: Bad file
number

Richard at DELL-7 ~
$



Please could anyone who knows to put it right let me know.

Thanks in advance,

Richard.


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