[GNC] Errors from jhbuild on Windows 11
Wm Tarr
wm at ilipsis.net
Sat Aug 8 13:54:41 EDT 2026
Good move, John.
Wm
On 2026-08-08 18:50, John Ralls wrote:
> IMO it’s beyond anyone without a good understanding of how MSYS2 works to make a Mingw32 build environment for GnuCash so I’ve put a new top level block on https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_on_Windows saying it’s broken and explaining why.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>> On Aug 8, 2026, at 10:12, Sherlock <sh025622 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Neil,
>>
>> MSYS2 has been migrating away from 32-bit support. To recolve the issue, it is usually a matter of identifying the appropriate packages still mainained at https://repo.msys2.org/mingw/mingw32 and pulling them ourselves. When I decide to setup the environment, I usually modify the setup-mingw64.ps1 script locally. The attached version is what I used in June. Note: At the pause, I apply updates within the gnucash-on-windows.git folder that I find appropriate.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Sherlock
>>
>>
>> On 8/8/26 3:06 AM, Neil Aggarwal wrote:
>>> Hello all:
>>> I am following this guide:
>>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_on_Windows
>>> Everything seems to go fine until I ran this command:
>>> jhbuild -f src/gnucash-on-windows.git/jhbuildrc build
>>> It gives me this output:
>>> Required packages:
>>> System installed packages which are too old:
>>> (none)
>>> No matching system package installed:
>>> boost
>>> cmake
>>> ninja
>>> jhbuild build: Required system dependencies not installed. Install using
>>> the command 'jhbuild sysdeps --install' or to ignore system dependencies
>>> use command-line option --nodeps
>>> When I ran
>>> jhbuild sysdeps --install
>>> the first time, it installed some stuff, but gave me some messages about
>>> things not found so I ran it multiple times with it installing some
>>> packages.
>>> Now, when I run it, nothing installs and I get this output:
>>> System installed packages which are new enough:
>>> automake
>>> libtool
>>> make
>>> pkg-config
>>> libxslt (libxslt.pc, required=1.1.26, installed=1.1.45)
>>> libxml2 (libxml-2.0.pc, required=2.7.8, installed=2.15.3)
>>> intltool (required=0.50.2)
>>> itstool
>>> git
>>> xmllint
>>> xsltproc
>>> python3-devel (python3.pc, required=3.2, installed=3.14)
>>> xmlcatalog
>>> docbook-xml
>>> docbook-xsl
>>> cc
>>> libffi (libffi.pc, required=3.0.0, installed=3.7.1)
>>> zlib (zlib.pc, installed=1.3.2)
>>> libpcre (libpcre.pc, required=8.31, installed=8.45)
>>> libpng (libpng.pc, installed=1.6.58)
>>> freetype2 (freetype2.pc, required=12.0.6, installed=26.6.20)
>>> bison (required=2.4)
>>> flex (required=2.0)
>>> c++
>>> libicu (icu-i18n.pc, required=4, installed=76.1)
>>> bash-completion (bash-completion.pc, installed=2.17.0)
>>> gperf
>>> libarchive (libarchive.pc, required=3.2.1, installed=3.8.9)
>>> sqlite3 (sqlite3.pc, required=3.8.3, installed=3.53.4)
>>> gnutls (gnutls.pc, required=3.1, installed=3.8.13)
>>> p11-kit (p11-kit-1.pc, required=0.19.0, installed=0.26.4)
>>> libuuid (uuid.pc, installed=2.40.2)
>>> libyaml
>>> libgcrypt (required=1.5.0)
>>> libnghttp2 (libnghttp2.pc, installed=1.70.0)
>>> krb5
>>> texinfo
>>> libtasn1 (libtasn1.pc, required=2.7, installed=4.21.0)
>>> asciidoc
>>> libdb
>>> llvm
>>> libclang
>>> readline
>>> hogweed (hogweed.pc, required=3.2, installed=4.0)
>>> nettle (nettle.pc, required=3.2, installed=4.0)
>>> libcurl (libcurl.pc, installed=8.21.0)
>>> gpgme (required=1.0.0)
>>> file
>>> mpc
>>> mpfr
>>> libunistring
>>> Required packages:
>>> System installed packages which are too old:
>>> (none)
>>> No matching system package installed:
>>> ninja
>>> shared-mime-info (shared-mime-info.pc, required=1.0)
>>> fontconfig (fontconfig.pc, required=2.13.0)
>>> gl (gl.pc)
>>> libXext (xext.pc)
>>> libXrender (xrender.pc)
>>> x11 (x11.pc)
>>> libXft (xft.pc, required=2.0.0)
>>> ragel
>>> libjpeg
>>> egl (egl.pc, required=1.3)
>>> cups (required=1.4)
>>> libXcursor (xcursor.pc)
>>> desktop-file-utils (required=0.20)
>>> flac (flac.pc, required=1.1.4)
>>> libvpx (vpx.pc)
>>> taglib (taglib.pc, required=1.5)
>>> wavpack (wavpack.pc, required=4.2)
>>> libavfilter (libavfilter.pc)
>>> libavformat (libavformat.pc)
>>> libavcodec (libavcodec.pc)
>>> libavutil (libavutil.pc)
>>> x11-xcb (x11-xcb.pc)
>>> libv4l (libv4l2.pc)
>>> dbus (dbus-1.pc, required=1.4.10)
>>> libXtst (xtst.pc, required=1)
>>> xi (xi.pc)
>>> xkbcommon-x11 (xkbcommon-x11.pc)
>>> pulseaudio (libpulse-mainloop-glib.pc, required=2.0)
>>> yasm
>>> cargo
>>> graphviz (libgvc.pc, required=2.26.0)
>>> vala-bootstrap
>>> polkit-gobject (polkit-gobject-1.pc, required=0.103)
>>> libcanberra (libcanberra-gtk.pc, required=0.30)
>>> nss (nss.pc, required=3.12.11)
>>> pam
>>> cmake
>>> libproxy (libproxy-1.0.pc)
>>> argyll
>>> lcms2 (lcms2.pc, required=2.6)
>>> docbook-utils (required=0.6.14)
>>> libxkbfile (xkbfile.pc)
>>> libXrandr (xrandr.pc, required=1.3)
>>> xkeyboard-config (xkeyboard-config.pc)
>>> libexif (libexif.pc, required=0.6.19)
>>> libtiff
>>> libdrm (libdrm.pc, required=2.4.45)
>>> libXcomposite (xcomposite.pc)
>>> xcb-dri2 (xcb-dri2.pc, required=1.8.1)
>>> hunspell (hunspell.pc)
>>> avahi (avahi-gobject.pc, required=0.6.31)
>>> hyphen
>>> libwebp
>>> mesa-libGLES (glesv2.pc, required=3.0)
>>> openjpeg (libopenjp2.pc, required=2.2.0)
>>> ruby
>>> libXdamage (xdamage.pc)
>>> libXt (xt.pc)
>>> libcanberra-gtk3 (libcanberra-gtk3.pc)
>>> dbus-glib (dbus-glib-1.pc, required=0.98)
>>> libpwquality (pwquality.pc)
>>> smbclient (smbclient.pc)
>>> kyotocabinet (kyotocabinet.pc)
>>> anthy (anthy.pc, required=0.3)
>>> libhangul (libhangul.pc, required=0.1.0)
>>> libxklavier (libxklavier.pc, required=5.0)
>>> sm (sm.pc)
>>> xtrans (xtrans.pc, required=1.3.5)
>>> liboauth (oauth.pc, required=0.9.4)
>>> openldap
>>> nspr (nspr.pc, required=4.9.2)
>>> dbus-run-session
>>> cvt
>>> libevdev (libevdev.pc, required=1.2.2)
>>> libxkbcommon (xkbcommon.pc, required=0.5.0)
>>> libX11 (x11.pc)
>>> libXfixes (xfixes.pc)
>>> libXi (xi.pc, required=1.7.4)
>>> libXinerama
>>> mesa-libEGL
>>> startup-notification (libstartup-notification-1.0.pc, required=0.12)
>>> xcb-randr (xcb-randr.pc)
>>> xcb-res (xcb-res.pc)
>>> xvfb-run
>>> polkit-agent (polkit-agent-1.pc, required=0.102)
>>> fuse (fuse.pc, required=2.8.0)
>>> libbluray (libbluray.pc)
>>> libcap
>>> libimobiledevice (libimobiledevice-1.0.pc, required=1.2.0)
>>> libnfs (libnfs.pc, required=1.9.8)
>>> libplist-2.0 (libplist-2.0.pc, required=2.2.0)
>>> libusb1 (libusb-1.0.pc, required=1.0.19)
>>> dotconf (dotconf.pc, required=1.3)
>>> espeak (required=1.46.02)
>>> libsndfile (sndfile.pc, required=1.0.21)
>>> exempi (exempi-2.0.pc, required=2.2.0)
>>> boost (required=1.33.1)
>>> libdmapsharing (libdmapsharing-3.0.pc)
>>> libvorbis (vorbisfile.pc)
>>> libraw (libraw.pc)
>>> lmdb
>>> libstemmer
>>> valgrind (valgrind.pc, required=3.10.0)
>>> libmusicbrainz (libmusicbrainz5.pc, required=5.0) Optional packages:
>>> (JHBuild will build the missing packages)
>>> System installed packages which are too old:
>>> (none)
>>> No matching system package installed:
>>> libepoxy (epoxy.pc)
>>> iso-codes (iso-codes.pc)
>>> cogl (cogl-1.0.pc)
>>> libgdata (libgdata.pc)
>>> WebKit6.0 (webkitgtk-6.0.pc, required=2.41.90)
>>> mozjs102 (mozjs-102.pc, required=102.1.0gnome1)
>>> telepathy-glib (telepathy-glib.pc)
>>> telepathy-logger (telepathy-logger-0.2.pc)
>>> libgee (gee-0.8.pc)
>>> WebKit (webkit2gtk-4.0.pc, required=2.41.90)
>>> I: Installing dependencies on system: ninja shared-mime-info fontconfig gl
>>> libXext libXrender x11 libXft ragel libjpeg egl cups libXcursor
>>> desktop-file-utils flac libvpx taglib wavpack libavfilter libavformat
>>> libavcodec libavutil x11-xcb libv4l dbus libXtst xi xkbcommon-x11
>>> pulseaudio yasm cargo graphviz vala-bootstrap polkit-gobject libcanberra
>>> nss pam cmake libproxy argyll lcms2 docbook-utils libxkbfile libXrandr
>>> xkeyboard-config libexif libtiff libdrm libXcomposite xcb-dri2 hunspell
>>> avahi hyphen libwebp mesa-libGLES openjpeg ruby libXdamage libXt
>>> libcanberra-gtk3 dbus-glib libpwquality smbclient kyotocabinet anthy
>>> libhangul libxklavier sm xtrans liboauth openldap nspr dbus-run-session
>>> cvt libevdev libxkbcommon libX11 libXfixes libXi libXinerama mesa-libEGL
>>> startup-notification xcb-randr xcb-res xvfb-run polkit-agent fuse
>>> libbluray libcap libimobiledevice libnfs libplist-2.0 libusb1 dotconf
>>> espeak libsndfile exempi boost libdmapsharing libvorbis libraw lmdb
>>> libstemmer valgrind libmusicbrainz libepoxy iso-codes cogl libgdata
>>> WebKit6.0 mozjs102 telepathy-glib telepathy-logger libgee WebKit
>>> I: Using pacman to install packages. Please wait.
>>> W: Provider for "ninja" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "ragel" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "libjpeg" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "cups" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "desktop-file-utils" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "yasm" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "cargo" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "vala-bootstrap" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "pam" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "cmake" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "argyll" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "docbook-utils" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "libtiff" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "hyphen" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "libwebp" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "ruby" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "openldap" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "dbus-run-session" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "cvt" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "libXinerama" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "mesa-libEGL" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "xvfb-run" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "libcap" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "espeak" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "boost" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "lmdb" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "libstemmer" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/shared-mime-info.pc" was not found,
>>> ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/fontconfig.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/gl.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xext.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xrender.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/x11.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xft.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/egl.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xcursor.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/flac.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/vpx.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/taglib.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/wavpack.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libavfilter.pc" was not found,
>>> ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libavformat.pc" was not found,
>>> ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libavcodec.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libavutil.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/x11-xcb.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libv4l2.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/dbus-1.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xtst.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xi.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xkbcommon-x11.pc" was not found,
>>> ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libpulse-mainloop-glib.pc" was not
>>> found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libgvc.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/polkit-gobject-1.pc" was not found,
>>> ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libcanberra-gtk.pc" was not found,
>>> ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/nss.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libproxy-1.0.pc" was not found,
>>> ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/lcms2.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xkbfile.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xrandr.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xkeyboard-config.pc" was not found,
>>> ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libexif.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libdrm.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xcomposite.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xcb-dri2.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/hunspell.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/avahi-gobject.pc" was not found,
>>> ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/glesv2.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libopenjp2.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xdamage.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xt.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libcanberra-gtk3.pc" was not found,
>>> ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/dbus-glib-1.pc" was not found,
>>> ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/pwquality.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/smbclient.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/kyotocabinet.pc" was not found,
>>> ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/anthy.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libhangul.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libxklavier.pc" was not found,
>>> ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/sm.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xtrans.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/oauth.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/nspr.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libevdev.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xkbcommon.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/x11.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xfixes.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xi.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libstartup-notification-1.0.pc" was
>>> not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xcb-randr.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xcb-res.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/polkit-agent-1.pc" was not found,
>>> ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/fuse.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libbluray.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libimobiledevice-1.0.pc" was not
>>> found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libnfs.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libplist-2.0.pc" was not found,
>>> ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libusb-1.0.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/dotconf.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/sndfile.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/exempi-2.0.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libdmapsharing-3.0.pc" was not found,
>>> ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/vorbisfile.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libraw.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/valgrind.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libmusicbrainz5.pc" was not found,
>>> ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/epoxy.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/iso-codes.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/cogl-1.0.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libgdata.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/webkitgtk-6.0.pc" was not found,
>>> ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/mozjs-102.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/telepathy-glib.pc" was not found,
>>> ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/telepathy-logger-0.2.pc" was not
>>> found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/gee-0.8.pc" was not found, ignoring
>>> W: Provider for "/usr/lib/pkgconfig/webkit2gtk-4.0.pc" was not found,
>>> ignoring
>>> I: Nothing to install
>>> Any ideas what went wrong?
>>> Thank you,
>>> Neil
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