Building linux releases of kmymoney are normally proceeded by distribution special build services like Opensuse build system for suse distributions ( (https://build.opensuse.org/) which support remote and local building of packages. Taking a look at the solved bugs for 4.8.1 https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&f1=cf_versionfixedin&f2=cf_versionfixedin&j_top=OR&list_id=1440431&o1=substring&o2=substring&product=kmymoney4&query_format=advanced&resolution=FIXED&v1=4.8.1 it would be nice to have a similar build system for windows to be able to release additional stable KMymoney releases.
Building windows releases of kmymoney has been added to the opensuse build service currently located as a personal obs project at https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:rhabacker:branches:windows:mingw:win32:kmymoney. The project currently creates windows setup installers and portable binary releases including language support (see https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:rhabacker:branches:windows:mingw:win32:kmymoney/mingw32-kmymoney-installer). For details how this works see [1] Because obs mainly supports building rpms the installer and portable packages are contained in a rpm file. For making releases a script (maintainer/release-windows-windows) has been added to kmymoney git repo. A release contains the portable 7z file and setup installer, the source tarball as 7z file and a 7z file containing debug symbols. The script prepares releasing to sourceforge (files need to be uploaded to sf manual) or KDE download mirror (it uploads binaries to upload.kde.org and opens a ticket for file releasing). Binary packages could be fetched directly by downloading the files starting with 'mingw32-kmymoney-installer*' and 'mingw32-kmymoney-portable*' from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/rhabacker:/branches:/windows:/mingw:/win32:/kmymoney/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/noarch/ or http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/rhabacker:/branches:/windows:/mingw:/win32:/kmymoney/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/noarch/ and extracted with 7zip (http://www.7-zip.org/). Technical details ----------------- [1] The kmymoney package are directly build from the kde git repo (see https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/home:rhabacker:branches:windows:mingw:win32:kmymoney/mingw32-kmymoney/_service?expand=1). Updating this file with a git tag or commit id or branch restarts a new rebuild. This creates a new source tarball in the package (for example _service:recompress:tar_scm:kmymoney-4.8.1.d29f4a2.tar.xz) which is used for building. The version mentioned in this filename then needs to be inserted as version into https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/home:rhabacker:branches:windows:mingw:win32:kmymoney/mingw32-kmymoney-installer/mingw32-kmymoney-installer.spec?expand=1 to match the installers version (I did not found a way yet to automate this). After the kmymoney package has been build, the mingw32-kmymoney-installer package installs mingw32-kmymoney with all required dependencies from which the the installers are created with the help of Cmake, nsis and 7z. Notes: - The currently available release looks already very good except the kBanking plugin, which crashes on several locations inside gwenhywfar and aqbanking and may be excluded from the current release. - I'm not sure which additional packages are also required to be released along with kmymoney - any hints welcome
Win64 binaries are available at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/rhabacker:/branches:/windows:/mingw:/win64:/kmymoney/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/noarch/ or http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/rhabacker:/branches:/windows:/mingw:/win64:/kmymoney/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/noarch/ Look for 'mingw64-kmymoney-installer*' and 'mingw64-kmymoney-portable*'.
(In reply to Ralf Habacker from comment #1) > - The currently available release looks already very good except the > kBanking plugin, which crashes on several locations inside gwenhywfar and > aqbanking and may be excluded from the current release. This has been fixed with bug 380119.
Win32 snapshots are available at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/rhabacker:/branches:/windows:/mingw:/win32:/kmymoney/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/noarch/ or http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/rhabacker:/branches:/windows:/mingw:/win32:/kmymoney/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/noarch/ Look for file starting with 'mingw32-kmymoney-installer*' and 'mingw32-kmymoney-portable*'. You need 7zip on windows (http://www.7-zip.de/) or ark in Linux to get the installer or portable package inside these files.
W32 Installer on Win7. Had to skip a daemon error on initial install. Error did not occur again after uninstall and reinstall.
(In reply to flywire from comment #5) > W32 Installer on Win7. Had to skip a daemon error on initial install. Error > did not occur again after uninstall and reinstall. Please provide the displayed daemon error
(In reply to Ralf Habacker from comment #6) > Please provide the displayed daemon error Sorry, I cleared it too quickly and it didn't occur when I uninstalled and reinstalled.
(In reply to Ralf Habacker from comment #1) > The version mentioned in this filename then needs to be inserted > as version into > https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/home:rhabacker:branches:windows: > mingw:win32:kmymoney/mingw32-kmymoney-installer/mingw32-kmymoney-installer. > spec?expand=1 to match the installers version (I did not found a way yet to > automate this). I finally fixed this issue by merging in the mingwxx-kmymoney-installer package into mingwxx-kmymoney based on a hint from https://saschpe.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/obs-101-how-to-threat-packages-with-multiple-spec-files/ Now the installer and portable packages are rebuild by default every time the source of the mingwxx-kmymoney package is updated.
For the record: After tagging the 4.8.1 release final packages has been build and the related obs packages has been merged into the official obs mingw32|64 project at https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/windows:mingw:win32 and https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/windows:mingw:win64 with the help of Fridrich Strba from SUSE. The package locations mentioned in comment 2 and comment 4 will be used to provide further snapshots with additional bug fixes.