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Support scripts to build gnucash for Windows using mingw32.
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Support scripts to build gnucash for Windows using mingw32.
These scripts will provide a build environment to build GnuCash on Windows. The scripts will take care of building/installing all the dependencies needed to build an run GnuCash on Windows. Note: this build system depends on the mingw project which provides the gcc compiler in a Windows environment. You can read more about mingw on its homepage: http://www.mingw.org/ These scripts support two ways to build a Windows/mingw32 version of GnuCash: - directly on a Windows PC - via cross-compilation on Linux (Note 2014-05-07: the scripts have been under heavy modification recently. The cross-compilation may no longer work.) ----------------------------------------- 1. Build GnuCash directly on a Windows PC ----------------------------------------- Building GnuCash directly on a Windows PC requires you to enter commands directly on a command line. Several command line interfaces exist. To build GnuCash you will need to use two: 1. The Windows built-in command prompt (cmd.exe) 2. The Msys shell (will be installed automatically) This is mentioned here because both command lines have a completely different set of commands available so it will matter which command line to start from for certain steps. In principle the instruction below will always specify which command line to use. Some notes on path names to begin: ---------------------------------- * Avoid using paths with spaces. Some parts of the build system don't cope well with spaces. So don't install in c:\Program Files. The build system by default assumes c:\gcdev as base directory called $GLOBAL_DIR from now on). * Windows and mingw/msys use a slightly different notation for paths. When working in an msys shell window you are advised to always use the msys notation. Outside the msys shell window you should use the Windows notation. Here is an example to show the difference: Windows: c:\gcdev\gnucash-on-windows.git Msys : /c/gcdev/gnucash-on-windows.git The difference is in the direction of the slashes and that c: is replaced with /c Note for completeness that in msys you can also use the Windows notation. However msys interprets a '\' as an escape character. So to use back slashes you will have to escape them. So the below will also work in msys: Msys (alternate): c:\\gcdev\\gnucash-on-windows.git The steps --------- On to building GnuCash now. The scripts have been set up to require as little manual actions as possible. The following should get you going: a. Download bootstrap_win_dev.vbs from the gnucash-on-windows repository on Github. Direct url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Gnucash/gnucash-on-windows/master/bootstrap_win_dev.vbs b. Run this script by double-clicking it and follow the instructions. If the script's output window closes before you get to a "Happy hacking" message then something went wrong. To figure out what you can instead open a Windows command prompt (cmd.exe) and run the script as cscript.exe <path\to>\bootstrap_win_dev.vbs Be sure to replace <path\to> with the correct path. Note: by default everything will be installed inside c:\gcdev\ You could alter this location by passing some parameters to bootstrap_win_dev.vbs. There are a couple of other parameters you can set to influence what is installed where. Please read the bootstrap script to learn which ones. If you want to pass parameters you will have to run the script from the command line of course instead of double-clicking it. Note: if you intend to use the buildserver scripts (see separate directory) to have a fully automated build that runs at regular intervals there are some restrictions to the paths you can/should alter. For more detail please check README.txt in the buildserver directory. You are now ready to build gnucash for the first time. The build is fully parameterized. That means which versions of libraries and tools to install, where to install them, which branch to build and so on can all be defined. If not set explicitly some default values will be used. If you're already familiar with the Windows build you may want to customize some of these parameters. If not sure - don't. The build should run just fine without it. The default values will all be found in 'defaults.sh'. You can override any of these in 'custom.sh'. The boostrap script you ran in step b. already created an initial version of this file. Some particular additions you may want to make to custom.sh are: GNUCASH_SCM_REV=maint will switch the branch of GnuCash that the script builds from 'master' to 'maint'. WITH_CMAKE=yes WITH_NINJA=yes Will use CMake and ninja instead of autotools and make to configure and build GnuCash (and only GnuCash, it has no effect on any of the dependencies). If you leave off WITH_NINJA it will configure with CMake and build with make. CMake + ninja builds are substantially faster than autotools ones. c. Open an Msys shell window. You do this by running c:\gcdev\mingw\msys\1.0\msys.bat Unless you chose to install mingw/msys in another directory of course. Let the automated build begin by: cd /c/gcdev/gnucash-on-windows.git ./install.sh If you chose to set up the build environment in a different location adjust the path accordingly. d. To generate a self-installing setup.exe file that contains *everything* run the following command after install.sh has completed: ./dist.sh And next ? ---------- If you got here without errors then congratulations ! You have just completed your first successful GnuCash Build. To use this version you can launch the Windows GnuCash Installer you just built in step d. You can find this installer in c:\gcdev\gnucash\. It works just like any other installer for a piece of Windows software: you double-click it and follow the instructions that are displayed. At some point you may want to build GnuCash again to get updates. To do so you should start with updating the GnuCash source files as well as the scripts used to build GnuCash on Windows. The former are stored in c:\gcdev\gnucash.git The latter in c:\gcdev\gnucash-on-windows.git As the name suggests both are managed by a tool called git. Below is only a minimal explanation on how to update these directories. - Open a Windows Explorer - Right-click on the gnucash-on-windows.git directory - Select Git Bash. This will open a command prompt. - Enter one command: git pull - Close the command prompt again This example shows how to update gnucash-on-windows.git but the same steps apply as well for gnucash.git. If you want to do more advanced things such as modifying code or building from a git branch other than the default 'master' branch you will need to familiarize yourself with git more intimately. A good starting point is http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Git In general more information with regards to building GnuCash on Windows is collected on http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows/Development At the time of this writing it should still be adapted to the new build scripts (2014-05-07). Known Issues/Things to improve ------------------------------ * It appears that installing html help on Windows systems more recent than Windows XP can fail. It looks like the installer triggers a Windows authorization dialog. For some reason this dialog can't be displayed when the installer is started from an msys shell. The workaround is a bit awkward currently and consists of 1. install html help directly by double-clicking it. Remember to install it where the gnucash build scripts expect it ! That is c:\gcdev\hh by default. 2. Inside your msys shell window enter these commands: pushd /c/gcdev/hh _HHCTRL_OCX=$(which hhctrl.ocx || true) [ "$_HHCTRL_OCX" ] || die "Did not find hhctrl.ocx" pexports -h include/htmlhelp.h $_HHCTRL_OCX > lib/htmlhelp.def pushd lib dlltool -k -d htmlhelp.def -l libhtmlhelp.a mv htmlhelp.lib htmlhelp.lib.bak popd popd 3. You can now rerun install.sh which should get past the html help installation step (Reference: http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2014-May/037561.html and following messages) * Error: unrecognized โlโ format This seems to happen on more recent Windows systems as well, perhaps only on 64-bit systems. The cause seems to be that mingw is using a very old version of msvcrt.dll which doen't know about the %lld modifier to print 64-bit integers. To work around this you can add a line in custom.sh: EXTRA_CFLAGS=" -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO" The same list message mentioned a couple of additional flags to set but these were not explained. For completeness the complete line was: EXTRA_CFLAGS=" -Wall -Werror -fno-builtin-dgettext -fno-builtin-towupper -fno-builtin-iswlower -ggdb3 -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO" Adjust as you see fit. (Reference: http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2014-May/037561.html and following messages) -------------------------------------------- 2. Cross-compile GnuCash/win32 on a linux PC -------------------------------------------- Cross-compiling a Windows/mingw32 executable of GnuCash on a Linux host system. Note: as mentioned earlier this part is probably no longer accurate due to the heavy changes to the build system in April 2014. It is kept here as a reminder to update it and fix any issues encountered. These steps need to be performed: 1. Look at defaults.sh and create a file named custom.sh to specify adapted directory variables. If you want verbose output of any script step, add "set -x" to that file. Particularly for cross-compiling, set these variables: * cross_compile: should be set to yes * GLOBAL_DIR: the base directory for all other directory definitions, unless you explicitly override it for some directories. * MINGW_DIR: set this to your preferred prefix of the mingw32 gcc/binutils on your Linux installation. (It is strongly recommended to choose a prefix different from your normal compiler tool chain in order to distinguish your native vs. cross compiler more easily.) 2. Then run the script create_cross_mingw.sh - it will download, compile, and install a mingw32 tool chain. 3. Download a binary windows packages for "guile" e.g. from http://www.tu-harburg.de/~et2cs/gnc/ and unpack it into the directory $GUILE_DIR as given in defaults.sh. (This is done because the build system for guile doesn't support cross-compiling.) 4. Call install.sh, which will read the directory settings from defaults.sh/custom.sh. It should download, compile, and install everything automatically. Eventually the windows gnucash is installed into $GNUCASH_DIR. 5. The content of $GNUCASH_DIR (as well as all the other binary packages) should then be copied to a windows machine. The paths in $GNUCASH_DIR/bin/gnucash and/or $GNUCASH_DIR/bin/gnucash.cmd need to be adjusted for the installation location on the windows machine. Good luck!
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