GnuCash

GnuCash rocks! I always wanted some good (and of course free!) personal accounting software. I was sad that I could not use GnuCash that is supported for Linux, Solaris and Mac OSX and not supported on Windows! I recently found some scripts online that utilize MinGW and some other tools to run GnuCash on Windows! I tried it out and it works!! Kudos!! There were some small issues along the way but I figured them out and got it running. It does take quite some time for compiling all the tools needed and GnuCash itself. It took me more than 2 hours, in fact, I left home while it was running not sure when it finished!!

Installing GnuCash on Window XP SP2:
Useful links: (or required links :))
1. http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows
2. http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2006-September/018588.html
3. http://www.mail-archive.com/gnucash-devel@gnucash.org/msg16250.html
4. http://www.zlatkovic.com/pub/libxml/

Problems I encountered:
1. Keep the install (http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk/packaging/win32/) scripts in a different folder than where GnuCash is being installed to.
2. Leave the global directory as the default: "c:\soft"; I had changed the global directory in the custom.sh script but had some issues (apparently!).
3. If the installation fails with errors installing LibXml2, it could be because the custom.sh script is using the wrong link for downloading. In my case, install script was looking for libxml2-2.6.26.win32.zip, which is now moved to "old releases" at http://www.zlatkovic.com/pub/libxml/. So change it to libxml2-2.6.27.win32.zip.
4. I also encountered the issue specified at http://www.mail-archive.com/gnucash-devel@gnucash.org/msg16250.html, and the solution decribed in there works!