win32 quoting paths in gnucash.bat and load errors on win ME

[Nathan Buchanan]

Hello!

This is my first time posting.

I just finished compiling r15278 on windows xp home, and seemed to run fine
(for the minimal check that I did). I then created the binary installer, and
tried to install it on a windows ME box. I noticed the following:

1. The attempt to set the path in gnucash.bat failed. (set PATH=C:\Program
Files\gnucash\bin;C:\Program Files\gnucash\lib\bin;%PATH%). I was able to
get it to succeed by quoting the path: (set PATH="C:\Program
Files\gnucash\bin;C:\Program Files\gnucash\lib\bin;%PATH%"). The %PATH% did
expand when quoted.
I don't know where this bat file is generated or how to edit it...could
someone give me a hint? Also, should all paths be quoted in this bat file?
(WinXP is a bit more clever about spaces in paths, as I'm sure you've
noticed.)

2. After setting 2-3 environment variables I got the "Out of Environment
space" error. It seems that the default is 256 _bytes_!! The bat file can be
configured to run with as much as 4096 Kb of "initial environment" space.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/230205 . Setting this value solved that
problem. If we could set this property on the bat file, the problem would be
solved.

3. The oh, so fun part.... I got past the "start gnucash-bin.exe" call and
got the warning message messge about "this is a devlopemt version and may
not work... ".  Somewhere the title of the window changed to
"gspawn-win32-helper-console". I suspect this means
gspawn-win32-helper-console.exe is running. Then I got about 2 screens of
the following:

Failed to load key /apps/gnucash/general/account_separator: Failed to launch
configuration server: Failed to execute child process (No such file or
directory)
Failed to load key /apps/gnucash/general/auto_decimal_point: Failed to
launch configuration server: Failed to execute child process (No such file
or directory)
Failed to load key /apps/gnucash/general/auto_decimal_places: Failed to
launch configuration server: Failed to execute child process (No such file
or directory)
Failed to load key /apps/gnucash/general/date_format: Failed to launch
configuration server: Failed to execute child process (No such file or
directory)
Failed to add history section to watched directories in gconf: Failed to
launch configuration server: Failed to execute child process (No such file
or directory)
Failed to add history section to watched directories in gconf: Failed to
launch configuration server: Failed to execute child process (No such file
or directory)
Failed to load key /apps/gnucash/general/toolbar_style: Failed to launch
configuration server: Failed to execute child process (No such file or
directory)
Failed to load key /apps/gnucash/desktop/gnome/interface/toolbar_style:
Failed to launch configuration server: Failed to execute child process (No
such file or directory)
Failed to load key /apps/gnucash/general/tab_position: Failed to launch
configuration server: Failed to execute child process (No such file or
directory)
_get_global_font_dc: The parameter is incorrect.

Any ideas? This is the same binary that worked on my win xp home box.

4. Finally I got a message box cleverly informing me that "Pango-ERROR **:
Unable to create Win32 cairo scaled font. This means out of memory or a
ciaro/fontconfig/Free Type bug. aborting..."

Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help debug this.

Thanks,
Nathan