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 <[email protected]> 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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