Can't build gitHEAD version on windows

aga agander93 at gmail.com
Sun May 15 17:55:01 UTC 2016


On 15/05/16 18:42, jeffjl.kde at outlook.com wrote:
> To clarify - After searching for a way to build KMM on Windows, I ended
> up with "emerge". It will (with quite a few fixes since it is a bit out
> of date) download and build everything needed to build KMM on a pure
> Windows system, e.g. mingw, gcc, msys, QT, KDE, libraries, and KMM. The
> emerge scripts create build folders based upon the names of the script
> files. It looks like the script file names are not always maintained and
> many script file names have versions and dates that are different from
> what they actually download and build. The script in emerge for KMM
> built version 4.6.4 but was still named "kmymoney-4.6.1-20110918.py". I
> modified the script to pull the master branch from git (that option was
> in the original script but was not used) but I didn't change the script
> file name (a new script name would disconnect it from the emerge git
> repository). So the git master branch is getting built in the folder
> tree containing the name "kmymoney-4.6.1-20110918". I am not mixing
> versions. Sorry for the confusion.
>

OK, Jeff.  Thanks for that info.  A little knowledge....

Allan

> Yes, the "emerge --cleanbuild" removed the entire KMM build folder tree.
>
> Next time I do a build I will capture the actual error messages and file
> a bug report.
>
> Thanks.
>   Jeff.

>  > Hi Jeff
>  >
>  > See below.

>  > >> jeffjl.kde at outlook.com hat am 7. Mai 2016 um 05:53 geschrieben:

>  > >> Hi Christian,
>  > >>
>  > >> I just tried
>  > >> "emerge --cleanbuild kmymoney"
>  > >>
>  > >> which removed everything under
> ...\build\extragear\kmymoney-4.6.1-20110918\work\mingw4-RelWithDebInfo-gitHEAD"
>  >
>  > I'm puzzled by the reference to "kmymoney-4.6.1-20110918". Why is it
>  > not referencing the 4.7.xxxxx location? There can be problems if there
>  > is more than one KMM version installed.
>  >
>  > I must add that I know nothing about Windows installs so ignore me if I
>  > am talking rubbish.
>  >
>  > Allan




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