This post describes how to build taskwarrior and timewarrior from github sources on a Windows system using msys & mingw.

• 2018-02-28 Update: clarified the use of msys2 shell
• 2018-02-26 Update: added information about run-time dependencies

Install Environment

• install msys2 according to this installation procedure. I used the x86_64 64-bit version (e.g. msys2-x86_64-20161025.exe)
• execute

msys2-x86_64-20161025.exe

• open the shell afterwards and do a “system” update with

pacman -Syu

accept all “replacement” suggestions, after the update kill shell.

Then once more open a shell and update the remaining system.

pacman -Syu

• after the successful intstallion and update procedure described above open msys2 shell: all following commands are to be executed from within this shell
• install build dependencies msys2/gcc and associated dev tools

pacman -S msys2-devel make cmake git

• after that i installed the {task,time}warrior specific things

pacman -S libgnutls-devel  python  libutil-linux-devel

During run-time the following package is needed

pacman -S libhogweed

if the libhogweed is not installed you will get the following (not very helpful) error message:

error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Build environment

I did not need to install any mingw32/mingw-w64-i686-gcc (coming with the mingw-w64-i686-toolchain bundle) or mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc (coming with the mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain bundle) compilers. On the contrary, I was quite unsuccesfull trying to do so ;-).

That’s why the msys2 shell is needed which sets the environment in such a way that the mingw compiler is not used if it is installed in parallel to the msys toolchaiun . This shell can be opend e.g. from a normal cmd.exe shell by calling

c:\msys2\msys2_shell.cmd -msys2

The following build action shall be done within this shell.

Building Taskwarrior

cd /usr/src
git clone --recursive -b 2.6.0 https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/taskwarrior.git
cd taskwarrior
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release .
make
make install

Building Timewarrior

cd /usr/src
git clone --recursive -b 1.1.1 https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/timewarrior.git
cd timewarrior
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release .
make
make install

if you get the following error message during the clone command:

fatal: clone of 'https://git.tasktools.org/TM/libshared.git' into submodule path '/usr/src/timewarrior/src/libshared' failed

you need to change the reference to the libshared git repository within the taskwarrior/.gitmodules and replace

https://git.tasktools.org/TM/libshared.git

with

https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/libshared.git

Afterwards do

cd timewarrior
git submodule sync
git submodule update --remote

and then continure with the cmake ... command above.

Personal Report support

to run my personal timewarrior reports the following steps have to be done in addition

pacman -S python3-pip
pip install PyYaml python-dateutil timew-report