-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear all,
several of us have now compiled and run GnuCash on MS Windows by the mingw32/gcc compiler environment. This is how everyone else can give it a try as well. We would be happy to hear any further feedback about problems or (hopefully) success in this matter. We've created a shell script that will download, compile, and install all requirements of GnuCash on Windows and eventually GnuCash itself. It will even make sure to retrieve the most up-to-date gnucash source code directly from SVN. Running this script will probably download ~200MB of data (but all downloaded data will be cached) and will take anything between 0.5 through 5 hours of time. That shell script is located in packaging/win32/install.sh of the gnucash SVN sources. For your convenience I've attached the content of that directory to this email. Before you can execute this shell script (which will do everything else automatically), you have to complete these steps manually: * Get the content of the packaging/win32 directory of gnucash SVN, either from SVN or from the attached archive, and unpack it somewhere on your Windows machine. * Adapt the directory name variables in the custom.sh file according to your preferences; the defaults would install everything in subdirectories below c:\soft. (Note that due to shell syntax, every windows-style backslash has to be specified as two backslashes.) * Download the "MSYS" package from http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml - -> Section "Current" -> Subsection "MSYS" -> MSYS-1.0.10.exe http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/MSYS-1.0.10.exe?download * Execute this downloaded package to install it into the chosen directory, say, C:\soft\msys (which is the $MSYS_DIR variable in custom.sh) * Download the "wget" package from http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml - -> Current -> mingwPORT -> wget-1.9.1-mingwPORT.tar.bz2 http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/wget-1.9.1-mingwPORT.tar.bz2?download and place the downloaded file in the $DOWNLOAD_DIR you have set in custom.sh * Start the MSYS commandline shell by double-clicking the "MSYS" icon on the desktop which should have been created when you installed the MSYS package. * Let the automated build begin by typing: cd $INSTALLER_DIR (the directory where install.sh is located) ./install.sh * If there haven't been any errors, you should be able (after several hours of compiling and installing) to start gnucash from the MSYS command line by typing c:/soft/gnucash/bin/gnucash or even without MSYS directly by "Start"-> "Run"-> "c:\soft\gnucash\bin\gnucash.bat" Please spread the word and report back any problems you encounter. It is probably not too difficult anymore to create a full self-contained package of GnuCash on Windows as well! Some more information is also collected on http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows, but the information there might already be out of date as well. Good luck everyone with this! Christian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBRRKbmWXAi+BfhivFAQIGQAP5AUX6Ml+B/RbQPRHrhbw1bDDHrsOWRN3Q 42GXZcwG3qx/mY7RJE8sonCljmpTR1ZskIFAFcAHbfqmg6xf3CET+cKItIEg+Cmq 4uKUlXQwH+d77Mtu0YMdMPiz10dsdyngpQiPeanrjPkdZEmufmoC4jvEVg8Pea7v IVPmVTBcv3M= =mJyh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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