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

[Derek Atkins]

I'm not at all suprised that WinME doesn't work, and honeslty as
a developer I'd like to say that "we don't support anything older
than WinXP".  WinME is like 5+ years old, and is certainly no longer
supported by Microsoft.

Sorry.

-derek

Quoting Nathan Buchanan <nbinont at yahoo.ca>:

> 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
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