Re: [Mingw-users] Building GNUCash on Vista

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Quoting Stephen Grant Brown <s_g...@be...>:

> Dear Sirs/Madams,
>
> I am not sure if I should post this but I am wanting to build GNUCash 
> on my Vista Home Premiun machine, so I can help debug it.
>
> It worked OK under XP.
>
> Since moving to a new computer with Vista I have run into issue after issue.
>

Well, there is Vista32 and Vista64 which do you have?  I don't have 
either yet so can't help with specifics to Vista beyond helping you 
help yourself.

> My first was permission issues. Another was the unzip program. The 
> latest is the gcc problem.
>

What is the gcc problem?

> I have installed the gcc-vista file (I think).
>
> Could someone have at a look at the supplied url and tell me what is 
> worng (or even better fix it) so I can compile gnucash?
>

I don't know the problem so I don't know what is wrong.

> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows#Instructions_for_an_.28almost.29_automated_build
>
> If I am asking too much, please tell me and I will continue to work 
> on it myself.
>

Helping you use MinGW is what this list is for.  I don't know Vista and 
I don't know gnucash but together we may work out the issues.

Earnie