Last week @codefarmer and I had a private discussion triggered by an earlier question about developing Gramps on Windows without MSYS2. And in the public part, I found that there is no easy way to do that, because that would mean that you’d need to download all dependencies yourself, of try to make …

See WIP: AIO build updates by hgohel · Pull Request #1821 · gramps-project/gramps which looks like it is related.

It is, and that GitHub user is codefarmer. I did not push my own changes to my repo, but I am working with similar ones, and still get an installer that creates a broken Gramps. Can you try a build with his scripts? Or some of your own?

Unsurprisingly, WIP: AIO build updates by hgohel · Pull Request #1821 · gramps-project/gramps also fails on my Windows PC. The problem is the call to cx_Freeze. It appears to fail to find 3 packages: “pydotplus”, “pygraphviz”, “pydot” If they are commented out, python setup.py bdist_wheel gets m…

The pip install error shows a couple of remedies, but it’s so long, and it’s hard to decide which is the best. I got the same error on LMDE 6. and there I opted for the one mentioned at the end, which is the --break-system-packages option. It was safe to try that there, because I have timeshift that…

There was a problem with the first 5.2.3 AIO build resulting in the 5.2.3-2 release for AIO. https://gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=13360 @Nick-Hall determined the current version of cx_freeze was causing the problem. https://gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=13360#c67026

I know that fix, but with that in place, the build itself fails, even when I checkout the branch tagged as 5.2.3.

I made some progress. See Msys2 update changes for aio by stevenyoungs · Pull Request #1826 · gramps-project/gramps Hopefully it’s just a question of finding out where the paths are not correctly adjusted.

I can now build an AIO installer which then leads to a working gramps installation. I hesitate to say that everything works, but the basics appear OK, in English at least.

Very nice, thanks! Looks good in Dutch too.

Some more observations now I’ve gone down this rabbit hole! the UPX compression does not seem worth the additional complexity. The installer was marginally larger with UPX compression, whilst the reduction in installed program size was only around ~1.5% (< 4MB) I’ve included a commit in my PR t…

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ennoborg December 14, 2024, 10:06am 13

It would be nice if we can include a fix for the version numbers not shown in Windows apps:

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