running gnucash on cygwin

[Derek Atkins]

Unfortunately you've reached the limit of my windows programming
knowledge. Hopefully some other cygwin expert can help you here.

I wish you luck, and if you have gnucash-specific questions I'll try
to answer them as best as I can.  can you dynamic-link libgncmod-engine?
I wonder if windows makes a difference between libraries and modules?

-derek

Ivan Middleton <idmiddle at umich.edu> writes:

> Well, I have things narrowed down a bit.  After adding some `display'
> statements to the scheme code, I've confirmed my suspicions that guile is
> having trouble loading modules.  Essentially the backtrace at the point
> where it gets stuck is
> 
> gnucash/main.scm: (use-modules (g-wrapped gw-gnc))
> 
> g-wrapped/gw-gnc.scm: (dynamic-call "gw_init_wrapset_gw_gnc"
>                                     (dynamic-link "libgw-gnc"))
> 
> Many of the dependencies of libgw-gnc get loaded, but not all.  At some
> point it stops loading DLL's, but is still using CPU cycles.  One of the
> dependencies of libgw-gnc is libgncmod-app-utils, and this may be the
> problem library.  I can load all the dependencies of libgncmod-app-utils
> using `dynamic-link', but
> 
> (dynamic-link "libgncmod-app-utils")
> 
> gives "dlopen: Win32 error 31".  This is the unhelpful error code
> ERROR_GEN_FAILURE, "A device attached to the system is not functioning."
> 
> I'll ask around on the Cygwin mailing lists as to whether anyone has had
> any similar experiences with dynamic loading.  Otherwise I'm probably
> close to being stuck.  I guess I could try recompiling libgncmod-app-utils
> in various ways, maybe leaving out some functionality to see what happens.
> Error 31 certainly doesn't give any clues.
> 
> Ivan
> 

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