Gramps for Windows with MSYS2
Contents
Install MSYS2
Download MSYS2 64bit installer
Update MSYS2
pacman -Syuu
Install Gramps dependencies
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-python3-bsddb3 mingw-w64-x86_64-gexiv2 mingw-w64-x86_64-osmgpsmap-git mingw-w64-x86_64-ghostscript mingw-w64-x86_64-python3-cairo mingw-w64-x86_64-python3-gobject mingw-w64-x86_64-python3-icu mingw-w64-x86_64-iso-codes mingw-w64-x86_64-hunspell mingw-w64-x86_64-hunspell-en mingw-w64-x86_64-enchant
Install Git
pacman -S msys/git
Install Gramps
Create directory when to store Gramps source and go to it
mkdir ~/grampsdev cd ~/grampsdev
Download Gramps master branch from source repository
git init git remote add -t master -f origin https://github.com/gramps-project/gramps.git git checkout master
Check which Gramps version is used
git describe
it should return something like: v5.0.0-alpha1-1024-g0919763f1