Talk:Windows

Errors using automated Windows build script

Hi everyone. I spent some of the Thanksgiving weekend trying to build GNUCash in Windows. Everything proceeded fairly well until I got to the autotools section of the build, at which point I got a vague error about requiring m4 version 1.4 or later. I checked, and the msys environment provided m4 version 1.4. I played around a little more, and finally went so far as to comment out the version check in the build script (I think it was autoconf/bin/autom4te) and that allowed the build to run a little further before it ran into another error (still in autoconf). I don't remember what the second one was, but the common thread in both cases was a reference to /dev/null. I don't know how msys handles /dev/null (there isn't a /dev directory in the environment), but Perl didn't seem real happy with it (I was able to do some testing at the command line to show that at least the shell doesn't throw an error when referencing /dev/null). I was wondering if anyone has successfully run the automated build recently? I tried to follow the directions on this page as closely as possible (did change mingw from 5.0.3 to 5.1.0 -- I had problems downloading and installing 5.0.3), but I'm assuming I did something wrong... Oh, and yes, I do have a reasonable amount of Linux experience, so feel free to get technical. --Scbash 09:13, 27 November 2006 (EST)