On Thursday 05 September 2013 17:10:40 John Ralls wrote: > On Sep 5, 2013, at 2:07 PM, Geert Janssens <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm currently reworking the build scripts on Windows. My goal is to > > leverage the work done by the mingw project to a maximum. In > > particular I'd like to use their installer (mingw-get) to simplify > > setting up an environment in which to build gnucash on Windows. > > > > mingw-get is not compatible with a cross-compilation environment > > however. So I was wondering how many people are actually building > > gnucash for Windows via a cross-compiler ? > > > > My current impression is that the cross-compilation set up has > > slowly > > been gathering dust. I may be wrong though. Hence the query... > > Great! It would be nice to get it working with more recent versions of > MinGW. > > Cross-compilation implies that it's on a system with working Python, > so one could use jhbuild... in which case, why use the rather clunky > shell scripts? > There are Windows installers available for python (1). Is python really the only missing piece to get jhbuild running on Windows ? If so that would indeed be an opportunity to look into jhbuild instead of our own scripts. I don't have enough experience with jhbuild though to spend my time on this. I'd be more than interested to hear your findings if you can play with it though!
I assume that we would still need to set up a functional mingw environment which is then used by jhbuild ? Geert (1) The installer for 2.7.5 for example is here: http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.5/python-2.7.5.msi _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
