Re: [Gretl-devel] building gretl on Windows, update
On Fri, 9 Feb 2018, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 09.02.2018 um 14:48 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
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OK, so I have started over again (apart from the installed packages in
mingw/msys, which I have left in place). The automatic setup now _almost_
works, but I got an error at the 'make' stage about pdflatex not found.
So just before running 'make', I manually repeated the export command which
would have been there in the setup.sh script already:
export PATH=$PATH:/c/w32tex/bin
I guess this is necessary because setup.sh is somehow a child of the current
shell and thus the exports are not persistent / do not affect the parent
shell?
Yes. See section 3.1 of the Windows-build guide. We recommend adding
the line in question to ~/.bash_profile so that the PATH always
includes pdflatex.
Then 'make' and 'make pdfdocs' work, and so does
'make install'. And my gretl
copy indeed starts up in German.
However, I get a cURL error 60 when I try to open the user guide from the
help menu (after starting the newly built gretl, of course).
Two things here. First (this needs to be made explicit in the
documentation), you need to do
make install-doc
to install the locally generated PDF files. (Then the download via
libcurl would not be required.)
Second, the error you mention was due to libcurl not finding the
certificates it needs for https. That's now fixed: it requires
updating gretl-git, and also the "mingw-gretl" package:
wget http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/winbuild/mingw-gretl-1.0-4-x86_64.pk...
pacman -U mingw-gretl-1.0-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
Thanks for testing, Sven!
Allin