Decided to step through the wiki Gramps for Windows with MSYS2 now that I have spent some time dabbling in MSYS2. Ran into one issue with this section: The Genealogical Symbols preferences tab needs Python Fontconfig version 0.5 so we need to build it. From a suitable build directory (I use ~/buil…

The wiki page was written before Jean Michault wrote a more automated script to build the installer, and create a couple of exe’s that you can run from the MSYS shell to test. You can find that script in our 5.2 branch, in the aio directory, with instructions in the README: //github.com…

The 5.2 version of Gramps no longer needs the fontconfig utility to select a font for Genealogical Symbols. Feel free to edit the Gramps for Windows with MSYS2 wiki, or perhaps better create a new wiki describing how to use the AIO scripts now included in the Gramps repository.

Hello @ennoborg , thanks to your nudge I ended up trying out the local build using aio\build.sh. It really has made building the aio executable much easier. [image] ennoborg: …correct this text on line 67……to make sure that the cd command chooses a directory that you actually have. For anyone…

Error building Python-Fontconfig (Gramps for Windows with MSYS2)

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