[Kmymoney-devel] compiling kmymoney on windows

Tue Feb 25 09:22:39 UTC 2014

Thanks for the welcome

The reason I was considering a fork was I thought it may be moving away from 
kmymoney's prime purpose which is personal finances. But as Cristian has 
pointed out much of it can be done via plugins, so I am happy to "stay with 
the program".

I haven't given up on MingW yet. but its very very slow going :( I am rather 
rusty on C++ and some of the errors it throws up particularly around 
templating have me pulling my hair out.

But having said that I am keen to get into it once I have a stable base to 
start with.

I am about 2 hours into my latest build attempt with qt libs. I guess I 
should have used the --noclean directive. I am used to make just picking up 
where it left off but it appears emerge deletes the build folder and starts 
from scratch.

Chris

On 25/02/2014 5:05 PM, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
>
> Chris,
>
> first of all welcome here on the list. I am not stuffed with MS-Windows 
> expertise and Cristian is our man for that job. So he and kde-windows guys 
> can give you more directions than I can.
>
> Regarding the features you want to implement/improve I suggest to stay 
> with the project and don't fork off. As with other features, we can always 
> open a development branch for them, but it would be way more beneficial if 
> we could benefit from your work and also you from ours. As Cristian 
> already mentioned: some of the things you think of to be AU specific we 
> could use in other parts of the world as well, at least as a foundation. 
> Also we do have feature requests for some of them, so don't waste 
> resources by forking off.
>
> Cheers
>
> Thomas
>
> On Monday 24 February 2014 20:56:57 Chris wrote:
>
> > I intended to compile them one by one. It seems some unnecessary ones are
>
> > included, for example mysql. I intend to download the binaries for the ones
>
> > I need and compile the minimum set I can.
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> >
>
> > Of course my plans are already falling apart.
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> >
>
> > While building libtool 2.4.2 I get a dialogue popping up every few seconds
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> >
>
> > "the procedure entry point libintl_setlocale could not be located in the
>
> > dynamic msys..." Ignoring it seems to be ok?
>
> >
>
> > Then make fails with...
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> >
>
> > emerge debug: executing command: G:\kderoot\msys\bin\sh.exe --login -c "cd
>
> > /g/kderoot/build/dev-util/libtool-2.4.2/work/mingw4-RelWithDebInfo-2.4.2 &&
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> > make -e -j2 VERBOSE=1"
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> > Makefile:514: *** missing separator. Stop.
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> >
>
> > it appears make does not allow for multiline statements, which is where the
>
> > above is failing.
>
> >
>
> > I am going to switch to msvc 2010 :( perhaps mingw4 is my problem. it
>
> > appears not enough people are using it to catch all the bugs and I haven't
>
> > tried msvc so it may resolve some of the errors.
>
> >
>
> > I was going to send any bugfixes upstream but things that are au small
>
> > business specific keep them local.
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> >
>
> > As far as I am aware splits don't work when importing, But that may have
>
> > changed.
>
> >
>
> > All the accounting packages I have used allow you to close off the period.
>
> > some make it mandatory. I am aiming for the middle of the road.
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> >
>
> > One very important feature I am going to work on and its worth pushing
>
> > upstream is when parsing imported statements make it context sensitive. By
>
> > that I mean set up import rules that will direct a transaction to a
>
> > different account based on the source bank account.
>
> >
>
> > This means that say "Interest Paid" form one bank account can go into a
>
> > different account to "Interest Paid" from another bank account.
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > That is all providing I can even get it to build....
>
> >
>
> > Chris
>
> >
>
> > On 24/02/2014 6:50 PM, Cristian Oneț wrote:
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> > > 2014-02-24 10:10 GMT+02:00 Chris <DeveloperChris at rebel.com.au>:
>
> > >> Thanks Cristian.
>
> > >>
>
> > >> I think I'll try just compiling kmymoney. Its the dependencies that keep
>
> > >> failing.
>
> > >
>
> > > Unfortunately without the dependencies you can't compile kmymoney.
>
> > >
>
> > >> Are there any restrictions on forking the project? As my earlier email
>
> > >> say I want to create an Australian small business version. That means a
>
> > >> few minor variations...
>
> > >
>
> > > None that I know of, although we would prefer any feature to be
>
> > > properly integrated into kmymoney.
>
> > >
>
> > >> Change wording to replace VAT with GST
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> > >
>
> > > That could be done in the Australian translations.
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> > >
>
> > >> set up splits automatically
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> > >
>
> > > I think that already works.
>
> > >
>
> > >> Create a special GST report
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> > >
>
> > > This could be added to kmymoney .
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> > >
>
> > >> Create import scripts for Australian banks, they do not use OFX.
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> > >
>
> > > Could be done as a plugin.
>
> > >
>
> > >> The ability to close off a financial period.
>
> > >
>
> > > We had some discussions about this, don't know if it's make sense for
>
> > > personal finances.
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> > >
>
> > >> Add import balances from a previous financial period (file)
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> > >
>
> > > Could be done as a plugin.
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> > >
>
> > > Regards,
>
> > > Cristian
>
> > >
>
> > >> And probably a lot more that I haven't thought of yet.
>
> > >>
>
> > >> Chris
>
> > >>
>
> > >> On 24/02/2014 4:41 PM, Cristian Oneț wrote:
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> > >>> 2014-02-24 0:56 GMT+02:00 <rebel at renegade.rebelhosts.com>:
>
> > >>>> What I would like to ask is how is the current kmymoney compiled for
>
> > >>>> windows? Is it using one of the above systems? is it cross compiled?
>
> > >>>
>
> > >>> The installer that we provide and the binaries it contains was created
>
> > >>> using emerge. The last release that we made is using the KDE 4.10.5
>
> > >>> libraries using the MSVC 2010 compiler.
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> > >>>
>
> > >>>> Is there a way I can get a copy of the environment or at least
>
> > >>>> somewhere
>
> > >>>> I can go to find out what needs doing?
>
> > >>>
>
> > >>> I guess can't get a copy of the whole environment because of it's
>
> > >>> size. Use emerge [1] to make your own (using the kde-4.10 branch). If
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> > >>> you run into any issues please ask for help at kde-windows at kde.org.
>
> > >>>
>
> > >>> Regards,
>
> > >>> Cristian
>
> > >>>
>
> > >>> [1] http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/Windows/emerge
>
> >
>
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>
> Thomas Baumgart
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