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Add as a first step to install either Strawberry Perl or ActivePerl.
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jralls committed May 5, 2015
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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
a. Download and install either Strawberry Perl
(http://strawberryperl.com/) or AcivePerl
(http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads).

b. 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.
c. 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
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in 'custom.sh'. The boostrap script you ran in step b. already created an initial
version of this file.

c. Open an Msys shell window. You do this by running
d. 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:
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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
e. To generate a self-installing setup.exe file that contains *everything* run
the following command after install.sh has completed:

./dist.sh
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