[Gretl-devel] Re: Small Windows build hiccup

2019-11-12 Thread Sven Schreiber
Am 10.11.2019 um 23:49 schrieb Sven Schreiber: Am 10.11.2019 um 23:20 schrieb Allin Cottrell: On Sun, 10 Nov 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote: "...copy the icons directory from msys/mingw64/share/ to your build/share directory." (Where the build dir in my case is C:\Users\\gbuild\gretl Is that

[Gretl-devel] Re: Small Windows build hiccup

2019-11-12 Thread Sven Schreiber
Am 12.11.2019 um 00:36 schrieb Allin Cottrell: On Mon, 11 Nov 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote: My pkgconf.sh, on the other hand, is a suggestion for what the user might pass to gretl's configure script -- in the highly unlikely event that he or she is aiming to build a redistributable gretl package

[Gretl-devel] Re: Small Windows build hiccup

2019-11-11 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Mon, 11 Nov 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote: Am 11.11.2019 um 00:03 schrieb Allin Cottrell: Maybe better: I've amended pkgconf.sh so that it ensures the "PREFIX" directory gets created. Thanks. Would it be an option to put these shell scripts into git, too? It's not totally clear to me why

[Gretl-devel] Re: Small Windows build hiccup

2019-11-10 Thread Sven Schreiber
Am 11.11.2019 um 00:03 schrieb Allin Cottrell: Maybe better: I've amended pkgconf.sh so that it ensures the "PREFIX" directory gets created. Thanks. Would it be an option to put these shell scripts into git, too? It's not totally clear to me why install-runtime-gtk3.sh.in is in git but things

[Gretl-devel] Re: Small Windows build hiccup

2019-11-10 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Sun, 10 Nov 2019, Allin Cottrell wrote: On Sun, 10 Nov 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote: * I'm repeating my open question whether /gbuild/gretl needs to be created manually before the whole process. Yes, there's nothing in the scripts to create that. I should make that clear in the PDF.

[Gretl-devel] Re: Small Windows build hiccup

2019-11-10 Thread Sven Schreiber
Am 10.11.2019 um 23:20 schrieb Allin Cottrell: On Sun, 10 Nov 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote: P.S.: I forgot the original point about the missing icons, so what still needs to be added to the packaging process is: "...copy the icons directory from msys/mingw64/share/ to your build/share

[Gretl-devel] Re: Small Windows build hiccup

2019-11-10 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Sun, 10 Nov 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote: P.S.: I forgot the original point about the missing icons, so what still needs to be added to the packaging process is: "...copy the icons directory from msys/mingw64/share/ to your build/share directory." (Where the build dir in my case is

[Gretl-devel] Re: Small Windows build hiccup

2019-11-10 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Sun, 10 Nov 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote: Am 10.11.2019 um 14:10 schrieb Allin Cottrell: On Sun, 10 Nov 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote: libgsf-1-114.dll couldn't be found...". But I did install your new deps package with it, and I have: c:\msys64\mingw64\bin\libgsf-1-114.dll. Hmm. In the

[Gretl-devel] Re: Small Windows build hiccup

2019-11-10 Thread Sven Schreiber
Am 10.11.2019 um 19:17 schrieb Sven Schreiber: Hi, I have now successfully produced a snapshot installer exe (although the result is untested), but there are a couple of caveats still: * The unsettled gsf issue from above (I followed your config suggestion to simply ignore it). * In

[Gretl-devel] Re: Small Windows build hiccup

2019-11-10 Thread Sven Schreiber
Am 10.11.2019 um 14:10 schrieb Allin Cottrell: On Sun, 10 Nov 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote: libgsf-1-114.dll couldn't be found...". But I did install your new deps package with it, and I have: c:\msys64\mingw64\bin\libgsf-1-114.dll. Hmm. In the meantime you can bypass that problem by adding

[Gretl-devel] Re: Small Windows build hiccup

2019-11-09 Thread Sven Schreiber
Am 10.11.2019 um 01:13 schrieb Sven Schreiber: Am 09.11.2019 um 16:57 schrieb Allin Cottrell: * I've made a few changes to install-runtime.sh.in and pkgbuild.sh which hopefully should fix the issues Sven mentioned. Hmm, now I'm getting an error at the 'make' stage (hopefully having cleaned

[Gretl-devel] Re: Small Windows build hiccup

2019-11-09 Thread Sven Schreiber
Am 09.11.2019 um 16:57 schrieb Allin Cottrell: This is an overall reply to Sven's points about building gretl on Windows, including building against GTK 3 (GTK 2 being the default to date). * I've made a few changes to install-runtime.sh.in and pkgbuild.sh which hopefully should fix the issues

[Gretl-devel] Re: Small Windows build hiccup

2019-11-09 Thread Allin Cottrell
This is an overall reply to Sven's points about building gretl on Windows, including building against GTK 3 (GTK 2 being the default to date). * I've made a few changes to install-runtime.sh.in and pkgbuild.sh which hopefully should fix the issues Sven mentioned. * I've updated the special

[Gretl-devel] Re: Small Windows build hiccup

2019-11-09 Thread Sven Schreiber
Am 08.11.2019 um 23:26 schrieb Allin Cottrell: On Fri, 8 Nov 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote: (BTW, I'm noticing that in the subdir language-specs there's nothing about gretl/hansl. Should such a language spec be submitted upstream to GTK, or is it already in newer versions?) It's not in newer

[Gretl-devel] Re: Small Windows build hiccup

2019-11-09 Thread Sven Schreiber
Am 08.11.2019 um 23:00 schrieb Allin Cottrell: On Fri, 8 Nov 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote: One further thing - Allin, are you sure that the path specifications are all correct inside install-runtime.sh? I'm having problems running that, and if I look at the relative path prefix

[Gretl-devel] Re: Small Windows build hiccup

2019-11-08 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Fri, 8 Nov 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote: Am 08.11.2019 um 10:40 schrieb Sven Schreiber: Am 07.11.2019 um 19:12 schrieb Sven Schreiber: So this is looking pretty good so far. The details of the packaging remain to be sorted out (see previous message), but that shouldn't be a fundamental

[Gretl-devel] Re: Small Windows build hiccup

2019-11-08 Thread Sven Schreiber
Am 07.11.2019 um 19:12 schrieb Sven Schreiber: So this is looking pretty good so far. The details of the packaging remain to be sorted out (see previous message), but that shouldn't be a fundamental problem I guess. OK, some remarks or notes-to-self about the created contents of

[Gretl-devel] Re: Small Windows build hiccup

2019-11-07 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Thu, 7 Nov 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 07.11.2019 um 18:47 schrieb Sven Schreiber: > > > So much for now - to be continued > > At this point, running gretl (the GUI program) under MSYS indeed works - > remember this was built with GTK3. However, just like you said the icons > are

[Gretl-devel] Re: Small Windows build hiccup

2019-11-07 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Thu, 7 Nov 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 07.11.2019 um 15:16 schrieb Allin Cottrell: > > On Thu, 7 Nov 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote: > > > Hmm, IIRC pdflatex was present by default after installing w32tex. Are > > you sure the w32tex/bin directory is in your PATH? (Section 3.1 of my > >

[Gretl-devel] Re: Small Windows build hiccup

2019-11-07 Thread Sven Schreiber
Am 07.11.2019 um 18:47 schrieb Sven Schreiber: So much for now - to be continued At this point, running gretl (the GUI program) under MSYS indeed works - remember this was built with GTK3. However, just like you said the icons are missing. So I followed this advice from somewhere on the

[Gretl-devel] Re: Small Windows build hiccup

2019-11-07 Thread Sven Schreiber
Am 07.11.2019 um 15:16 schrieb Allin Cottrell: On Thu, 7 Nov 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote: Hmm, IIRC pdflatex was present by default after installing w32tex. Are you sure the w32tex/bin directory is in your PATH? (Section 3.1 of my guide.) Yes, but the installation somehow didn't complete the

[Gretl-devel] Re: Small Windows build hiccup

2019-11-07 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Thu, 7 Nov 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Hi, > after quite a while I'm trying to build gretl on Windows again, > following the excellent guide gretl-winbuild.pdf. > > The first little problem I came across was inside section 3.5 of the > guide. The command "pacman -S ${DEPS} --needed" (also

[Gretl-devel] Re: Small Windows build hiccup

2019-11-07 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Thu, 7 Nov 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 07.11.2019 um 11:17 schrieb Sven Schreiber: > > > If there are more problems, I will post them in this thread (or collect > > them first). Thanks for working on this. > Ok, so here are various further notes and questions: > > 1) Is it necessary to

[Gretl-devel] Re: Small Windows build hiccup

2019-11-07 Thread Sven Schreiber
Am 07.11.2019 um 11:17 schrieb Sven Schreiber: If there are more problems, I will post them in this thread (or collect them first). Ok, so here are various further notes and questions: 1) Is it necessary to add pdflatex to the w32tex installation (recommended TeX variant in the build guide)