Hi Tim,

If the changes are minor then I think we should include it in ledger.
Testing the build and functionality, I can help with that. If the
namespaces are the only change, then it should work straight in Linux, but
I don't know C++, so please correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks,
Santosh


On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 5:23 AM, Tim Crews <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Friday, June 14, 2013 12:49:31 AM UTC-7, Tim Crews wrote:
>>
>> Hello:
>>
>> Since there are currently not any native Windows binaries publicly
>> available for Ledger 3.0, and it seems that an official release is
>> impending, I decided to make a stab at creating a Windows binary for the
>> world to share.  Up to now, I've been using a Cygwin build, but that's
>> going to be pretty inconvenient for most Windows users.
>>
>>
>> I am glad to report that another day of work got the job done.  *I am
> now running a native 32-bit Windows build of ledger 3.0, built with
> Microsoft Visual C++ 11 (2012).*
>
> I've run the MathTests and UtilTests executables, and they report no
> errors detected.  But they ran suspiciously quickly (i.e. instantly, with
> 53 test cases and 1 test case, respectively).
>
> But ledger passes the "it works for me" test.  I'm able to invoke ledger
> and run all of my weekly reports and my custom external utilities.  My
> native Windows Emacs ledger-new mode is able to invoke ledger successfully
> and it gives me the results that I expect.
>
> I statically linked ledger to the GMP (actually MPIR) and MPFR libraries,
> but dynamically linked to the Boost libraries (it's a long story).  So to
> run it, you need the executable plus three Boost dlls.  I would be glad to
> upload these files to someplace public if there's a standard location for
> ledger binaries.  I confess that I don't know what the licensing issues are
> for redistributing this linked with these libraries.
>
> To get ledger to build under Windows, I had to make a total of three minor
> changes:
>
>    - In account.h, the calls to bind had to be changed to boost::bind
>    - In history.cc, the calls to tie had to be changed to
>    boost::tuples::tie
>    - I had to add an implementation for strptime, which is called from
>    times.cc (thanks to Max Erickson for the pointer to the google strptime
>    code.)
>
> I also couldn't get it to build against Boost 1.46.1 (lots of
> incompatibilities in boost::filesystem), so I used the latest Boost 1.53.0
> instead.
>
> Tim Crews
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