Re: [GNC-dev] Building on Windows

2019-08-28 Thread Dale Phurrough via gnucash-devel
With this Windows GnuCash discussion, I see several categories of choices that seem to be in play for Windows. I'll write here my thoughts and invite you all to add yet more clarity. *Library and ABI ecosystem:* - This is gcc, g++ within msys2 ecosystem while using Linux-esque libraries.

Re: [GNC-dev] Building on Windows

2019-08-27 Thread Geert Janssens
Op dinsdag 27 augustus 2019 19:00:59 CEST schreef John Ralls: > > On Aug 27, 2019, at 1:29 AM, Geert Janssens > > wrote:> > > Op maandag 26 augustus 2019 18:32:40 CEST schreef John Ralls: > >>> On Aug 26, 2019, at 1:49 AM, Geert Janssens > >>> wrote:> > >>> > >>> Op zaterdag 24 augustus 2019

Re: [GNC-dev] Building on Windows

2019-08-27 Thread John Ralls
> On Aug 27, 2019, at 1:29 AM, Geert Janssens > wrote: > > Op maandag 26 augustus 2019 18:32:40 CEST schreef John Ralls: >>> On Aug 26, 2019, at 1:49 AM, Geert Janssens >>> wrote:> >>> Op zaterdag 24 augustus 2019 19:40:06 CEST schreef Matthew Forbis: I was running gnucash directly

Re: [GNC-dev] Building on Windows

2019-08-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
> On Aug 27, 2019 w35d239, at 11:01 AM, John Ralls wrote: > > > VSCode can't build anything, it's just an editor. But it can call[1] out to > the build system to do whatever build for whatever platform you like. Visual > Studio is the full-featured IDE and there's a free (as in beer,

Re: [GNC-dev] Building on Windows

2019-08-27 Thread John Ralls
My understanding, and the link you posted does nothing to gainsay it, is that VSCode is an editor like emacs. You need other tools to do the building, packaging, and debugging. Like emacs, those tools can be integrated with the editor via tasks (link in previous email). What's your full setup

Re: [GNC-dev] Building on Windows

2019-08-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Interesting. Also very interesting, is this graph form the survey showing how the technologies relate to each other, and from that one *might* surmise the use cases: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018#correlated-technologies If I’m reading that correctly, it looks like VSCode is

Re: [GNC-dev] Building on Windows

2019-08-27 Thread John Ralls
> On Aug 26, 2019, at 10:15 PM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > >> On Aug 26, 2019 w35d238, at 11:28 PM, Sumit Bhardwaj >> wrote: >> >> WSL would provide a Linux binary, not a Windows binary. Is that what you are >> thinking of building? I am also not sure how to get GUI running for WSL.

Re: [GNC-dev] Building on Windows

2019-08-27 Thread Geert Janssens
Op dinsdag 27 augustus 2019 14:37:21 CEST schreef Dale Phurrough: > I noticed earlier the use of "VS" and was watching it for context. Now I > see more clearly what was intended. > You want to actually use the Visual Studio UI and the Visual Studio > compiler. And consider VS Code a lesser option

Re: [GNC-dev] Building on Windows

2019-08-27 Thread Dale Phurrough via gnucash-devel
If your goal is to use a Windows computer to run and/or develop GnuCash, then an option is to... Execute GnuCash in Linux Display GnuCash in Windows I do not recommend deep investment into the current WSL. The drastically different WSL2 is already in preview and will be available within ~6-9

Re: [GNC-dev] Building on Windows

2019-08-27 Thread Geert Janssens
Op maandag 26 augustus 2019 18:32:40 CEST schreef John Ralls: > > On Aug 26, 2019, at 1:49 AM, Geert Janssens > > wrote:> > > Op zaterdag 24 augustus 2019 19:40:06 CEST schreef Matthew Forbis: > >> I was running gnucash directly from the inst directory and not creating > >> an > >> installer

Re: [GNC-dev] Building on Windows

2019-08-26 Thread Adrien Monteleone
> On Aug 26, 2019 w35d238, at 11:28 PM, Sumit Bhardwaj > wrote: > > WSL would provide a Linux binary, not a Windows binary. Is that what you are > thinking of building? I am also not sure how to get GUI running for WSL. (WSL > is really good tool.) That’s what I was thinking too, but maybe

Re: [GNC-dev] Building on Windows

2019-08-26 Thread Sumit Bhardwaj
. I haven't tried it after that, but I can try and report back. -Sumit -Original Message- From: gnucash-devel On Behalf Of John Ralls Sent: Monday, August 26, 2019 09:33 To: Geert Janssens Cc: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org; Matthew Forbis Subject: Re: [GNC-dev] Building on Windows

Re: [GNC-dev] Building on Windows

2019-08-26 Thread John Ralls
> On Aug 26, 2019, at 1:49 AM, Geert Janssens > wrote: > > Op zaterdag 24 augustus 2019 19:40:06 CEST schreef Matthew Forbis: >> I was running gnucash directly from the inst directory and not creating an >> installer first. This explanation makes sense. >> > > There you go. > > It would

Re: [GNC-dev] Building on Windows

2019-08-26 Thread Geert Janssens
Op zaterdag 24 augustus 2019 19:40:06 CEST schreef Matthew Forbis: > I was running gnucash directly from the inst directory and not creating an > installer first. This explanation makes sense. > There you go. It would be nice though to be able to run directly from the inst directory while

Re: [GNC-dev] Building on Windows

2019-08-26 Thread Geert Janssens
Op zaterdag 24 augustus 2019 18:22:42 CEST schreef John Ralls: > > On Aug 23, 2019, at 11:28 PM, Geert Janssens > > wrote: > > > > Op vrijdag 23 augustus 2019 22:49:12 CEST schreef Matthew Forbis via > > gnucash-> > > devel: > >> I have finally had time to sit down and try again. When libxml >

Re: [GNC-dev] Building on Windows

2019-08-24 Thread Matthew Forbis via gnucash-devel
I was running gnucash directly from the inst directory and not creating an installer first.  This explanation makes sense. Thanks,Matt On Saturday, August 24, 2019, 11:22:48 AM CDT, John Ralls wrote: > On Aug 23, 2019, at 11:28 PM, Geert Janssens > wrote: > > Op vrijdag 23

Re: [GNC-dev] Building on Windows

2019-08-24 Thread John Ralls
> On Aug 23, 2019, at 11:28 PM, Geert Janssens > wrote: > > Op vrijdag 23 augustus 2019 22:49:12 CEST schreef Matthew Forbis via gnucash- > devel: >> I have finally had time to sit down and try again. When libxml development >> was installed via pacman, it installed icu64 in addition to the

Re: [GNC-dev] Building on Windows

2019-08-24 Thread Geert Janssens
Op vrijdag 23 augustus 2019 22:49:12 CEST schreef Matthew Forbis via gnucash- devel: > I have finally had time to sit down and try again. When libxml development > was installed via pacman, it installed icu64 in addition to the icu61 that > was already installed by the gnucash script. I was able

Re: [GNC-dev] Building on Windows

2019-08-23 Thread Matthew Forbis via gnucash-devel
I have finally had time to sit down and try again.  When libxml development was installed via pacman, it installed icu64 in addition to the icu61 that was already installed by the gnucash script.  I was able to remove icu64 and clear out the entire build and inst directories and try again.  It

Re: [GNC-dev] Building on Windows

2019-08-16 Thread Matthew Forbis via gnucash-devel
Yes I have that commit on my system and had a clean build directory for gnucash prior to starting the compile. Thanks,Matt On Thursday, August 15, 2019, 10:21:50 PM CDT, John Ralls wrote: I had a similar build failure on MacOS a few hours ago and pushed

Re: [GNC-dev] Building on Windows

2019-08-15 Thread Matthew Forbis via gnucash-devel
Hi responding to myself: First, forgot plain text in the first email, so I fixed the formatting in the original below to make it easier to read. Second, my system has both icu 61 which is the one explicitly required for webkit as well as has icu 64 which was installed as part of the libxml2

[GNC-dev] Building on Windows

2019-08-15 Thread Matthew Forbis via gnucash-devel
Hi All, I have recently worked on building GNUCash on windows to try to debug a problem I've been having with my reports.  I found a few things that look like the script might need to be updated for (or I had something wrong in my procedure). 1.  I had to install some packages through pacman